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BACK TO NATURE
THE GREEN AND THE REAL IN THE LATE RENAISSANCE |
| By: |
Robert N. Watson |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0812220226 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780812220223 |
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 December, 2007 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. |
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleSweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological and epistemological anxieties were conjoined twins. Urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, revived Skepticism, empirical science, and optical technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself in the seventeenth century. Literary and visual arts explored the resulting cultural wounds, expressing the pain and proposing some ingenious cures. The stakes, Robert N. Watson demonstrates, were huge.Shakespeare's comedies, Marvell's pastoral lyrics, Traherne's visionary Centuries, and Dutch painting all illuminate a fierce submerged debate about what love of nature has to do with perception of reality. |
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51 illus. |
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US |
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University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Winner of the Association for the Study of Literature and the
Winner of Winner of the 2006 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for Renaissance
Winner of Nemed 2005-2006 Best Book in Ecocriticism by the Association for
Winner of Winner of the 2006 Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Prize for the year's |
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