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Invaluable Trees - Cultures of Nature, 1660-1830 (Paperback, New ed.): Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, Giulia Pacini Invaluable Trees - Cultures of Nature, 1660-1830 (Paperback, New ed.)
Laura Auricchio, Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, Giulia Pacini
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Trees and tree products have long been central to human life and culture, taking on intensified significance during the long eighteenth century. As basic raw material they were vital economic resources, objects of international diplomatic and commercial exchange, and key features in local economies. In an age of ongoing deforestation, both individuals and public entities grappled with the complex issues of how and why trees mattered. In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors build on recent research in environmental history, literary and material culture, and postcolonial studies to develop new readings of the ways trees were valued in the eighteenth century. They trace changes in early modern theories of resource management and ecology across European and North American landscapes, and show how different and sometimes contradictory practices were caught up in shifting conceptions of nature, social identity, physical health and moral wellbeing. In its innovative and thought-provoking exploration of man's relationship with trees, Invaluable trees: cultures of nature, 1660 -1830 argues for new ways of understanding the long eighteenth century and its values, and helps re-frame the environmental challenges of our own time.

Epistolary Bodies - Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters (Hardcover): Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook Epistolary Bodies - Gender and Genre in the Eighteenth-Century Republic of Letters (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook
R1,477 Discovery Miles 14 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Informed by Jurgen Habermas's public sphere theory, this book studies the popular eighteenth-century genre of the epistolary narrative through readings of four works: Montesquieu's Lettres persanes (1721), Richardson's Clarissa (1749-50), Riccoboni's Lettres de Mistriss Fanni Butlerd (1757), and Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer (1782).The author situates epistolary narratives in the contexts of eighteenth-century print culture: the rise of new models of readership and the newly influential role of the author; the model of contract derived from liberal political theory; and the techniques and aesthetics of mechanical reproduction. Epistolary authors used the genre to formulate a range of responses to a cultural anxiety about private energies and appetites, particularly those of women, as well as to legitimate their own authorial practices. Just as the social contract increasingly came to be seen as the organising instrument of public, civic relations in this period, the author argues that the epistolary novel serves to socialise and regulate the private subject as a citizen of the Republic of Letters.

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