Featuring over two hundred nature-themed texts spanning the
disciplines of literature, science and history, this sourcebook
offers an accessible field guide to the environment of Renaissance
England, revealing a nation at a crossroads between its pastoral
heritage and industrialized future. Carefully selected primary
sources, each modernized and prefaced with an introduction, survey
an encyclopaedic array of topographies, species, and topics: from
astrology to zoology, bear-baiting to bee-keeping, coal-mining to
tree-planting, fen-draining to sheep-whispering. The familiar
voices of Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marvell mingle with a
diverse chorus of farmers, herbalists, shepherds, hunters,
foresters, philosophers, sailors, sky-watchers, and duchesses - as
well as ventriloquized beasts, trees, and rivers. Lavishly
illustrated, the anthology is supported by a lucid introduction
that outlines and intervenes in key debates in Renaissance
ecocriticism, a reflective essay on ecocritical editing, a
bibliography of further reading, and a timeline of environmental
history and legislation drawing on extensive archival research.
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