Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and
nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and
singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in
early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and
Ecology in Early Modern England shows how warfare unsettles ideas
of the human, yet ultimately contributes to, and is then
perpetuated by, anthropocentrism. Bertram's study of early modern
warfare's impact on human-animal and human-technology relationships
draws upon posthumanist theory, animal studies, and the new
materialisms, focusing on responses to the Anglo-Spanish War, the
Italian Wars, the Wars of Religion, the colonization of Ireland,
and Jacobean "peace." The monograph examines a wide range of
texts-essays, drama, military treatises, paintings, poetry,
engravings, war reports, travel narratives-and authors-Erasmus,
Machiavelli, Digges, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Coryate, Bacon-to show
how an intricate web of perpetual war altered the perception of the
physical environment as well as the ideologies and practices
establishing what it meant to be human.
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