Early Modern Écologies: Beyond English Ecocriticism 9789048537211
Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary eco
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Table of contents :
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Off the Human Track : Montaigne, Deleuze, and the Materialization of Philosophy
Part 1. Dark(Ish) Ecologies
2. Du Bartas Responding to Morton’s Milton : A Bodily Route to the Ecological Thought
3. ‘When is a meadow not a meadow?’ : Dark Ecology and Fields of Conflict in French Renaissance Poetry
4. Equipment for Living with Hyperobjects : Proverbs in Ronsard’s Franciade
5. Is Ecology Absurd? Diogenes and the End of Civilization
Part 2. Nature’s Cultures
6. Between Nature and Culture : The Integrated Ecology of Renaissance Climate Theories
7. Almost Encountering Ronsard’s Rose
8. Renascent Nature in the Ruins: Joachim du Bellay’s Antiquitez de Rome
Part 3. Groundings
9. An Inconvenient Bodin: Latour and the Treasure Seekers
10. Reading Olivier de Serres circa 1600: Between Economy and Ecology
11. Montaigne’s Plants in Movement
Epilogue
Index
