What else is pastoral? : Renaissance literature and the environment /

Hiltner, Ken,

What else is pastoral? : Renaissance literature and the environment / Ken Hiltner. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

The nature of art -- What else is pastoral? -- What else was pastoral in the Renaissance? -- Pastoral and ideology, and the environment -- Representing air pollution in early modern London -- Environmental protest literature of the Renaissance -- Empire, the environment, and the growth of georgic.

Ken Hiltner takes a fresh look at pastoral, offering an environmentally minded reading that reconnects poems with literal landscapes, not just figurative ones.



9780801460760

2019725481


Pastoral literature, English--History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.


Electronic Books.

PR418 / .W438 2011