Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity [Hardcover]

Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural surroundings.Foreword; M.O'Connor ?& S.Mendelson?? Introduction; J.Munroe & R.Laroche ? PART I: RETHINKING THE FAMILIAR: THE WOMAN-NATURE CONNECTION Nature and the Difference 'She' Makes; L.Bruckner? First 'Mother of Science': Milton's Eve, Knowledge, and Nature; J.Munroe ? Ecofeminist Eve: Illustrators Reading Milton's Heroine; W.Furman-Adams ? PART II: RETHINKING THE 'ECOFEMINIST' IN EARLY MODERN DOMESTIC PRACTICE On the 'Oil of Swallows': Early Modern Women's Material Practice of Medicine and the Reliability of the Textual Record; M.DiMeo ?& R.Laroche ? Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Hannah Woolley's Material Politics; D.Goldstein? Preserving Nature: in Hannah Woolley's The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet ; A.Tigner? PART III: RE-THINKING/RE-READING THE LANDSCAPE 'Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers': The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham's Book of Remembrance ; H.Nunn? Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth's Urania ; M.Jacobson ?& V.Nardizzi? Language 'like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass': Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke's The History of Emily Montague ;? E.Bowles ? Afterword; R.Bushnell

This is an important collection.The editors make a powerful case for the centrality of a revised ecofeminism to both feminist and ecocritical scholarship. And in support of their project, they have assembled a first-rate collection of original essays that are grounded in meticulous historical research and subtle textual analysis and informed by mindful attention to present experience and its political implications. - Phyllis Rackin, professor emerita of English, University of Pennsylvania

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