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The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature>/cite> tracks
an important shift in early modern conceptions of selfhood, arguing
that the period hosted the birth of a new subset of the human, the
eco-self, which melds a deeply introspective turn with an abiding
sense of humans' embedment in the world. A confluence of cultural
factors produced the relevant changes. Of paramount significance
was the rapid spread of literacy in England and across Europe:
reading transformed the relationship between self and world,
retooled moral reasoning, and even altered human anatomy. This book
pursues the salutary possibilities, including the ecological
benefits, of this redesigned self by advancing fresh readings of
texts by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster,
and Margaret Cavendish. The eco-self offers certain refinements to
ecological theory by renewing appreciation for the rational,
deliberative functions that distinguish humans from other species.
The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the
testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has
not been true of ecocriticism. This is partly because, until
recently, most ecologically minded writers have located the origins
of ecological crisis in the Enlightenment, with the legacies of the
Cartesian cogito singled out as a particular cause of our current
woes. Traditionally, Renaissance writers were tacitly (or,
occasionally, overtly) presumed to be oblivious of environmental
degradation and unaware that the episteme-the conceptual edifice of
their historical moment-was beginning to crack. This perception is
beginning to change, and Dr. Guber's work is poised to illuminate
the burgeoning number of ecocritical studies devoted to this
period, in particular, by showing how the classical concept of the
cosmopolis, which posited the harmonious integration of the Order
of Nature (cosmos) with the Order of Society (polis), was at once
revived and also systematically dismantled in the Renaissance.
Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking
Cosmopolis demonstrates that the Renaissance is the hinge, the
crucial turning point in the human-nature relationship and examines
the persisting ecological consequences of the nature-state's
demise.
The work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has often been the
testing-ground for innovations in literary studies, but this has
not been true of ecocriticism. This is partly because, until
recently, most ecologically minded writers have located the origins
of ecological crisis in the Enlightenment, with the legacies of the
Cartesian cogito singled out as a particular cause of our current
woes. Traditionally, Renaissance writers were tacitly (or,
occasionally, overtly) presumed to be oblivious of environmental
degradation and unaware that the episteme-the conceptual edifice of
their historical moment-was beginning to crack. This perception is
beginning to change, and Dr. Guber's work is poised to illuminate
the burgeoning number of ecocritical studies devoted to this
period, in particular, by showing how the classical concept of the
cosmopolis, which posited the harmonious integration of the Order
of Nature (cosmos) with the Order of Society (polis), was at once
revived and also systematically dismantled in the Renaissance.
Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking
Cosmopolis demonstrates that the Renaissance is the hinge, the
crucial turning point in the human-nature relationship and examines
the persisting ecological consequences of the nature-state's
demise.
Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for
discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication
in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval
and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the
Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of
images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties
of symbolic communication in towns that made a range of
relationships visual: the status and role of urban civic,
professional, and religious communities and the relations between
the town and its lord or powerful families and individuals. The
geographical framework of this book is the region in the former
Habsburg countries north of the Danube River embracing the region
between western Bohemia and what is today eastern Slovakia,
including the borderland towns of northern Austria. Two studies
focus on specific local and occupational communities in the Prague
towns, but most of the texts in this book focus on small towns by
contemporary European standards in which many forms of urban
topography, buildings, objects, and monuments survive, even though
few written sources have been preserved. Accessing a wide range of
literature in regional languages and German for English speakers,
this collection describes typical urban landscapes in early modern
Central Europe outside the well-known Central European urban
centers and traditional areas of study. The book is a relevant new
contribution to medieval and early modern studies, not only
covering an underappreciated geographical area but also addressing
general questions about the history of rituals and performance as
well as visual culture, communication, and identity discourses in
late medieval and early modern urban space.
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