Ecocriticism and Shakespeare : reading ecophobia / Simon C. Estok.

Author/creator Estok, Simon C.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Descriptionx, 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesLiteratures, cultures, and the environment
Literatures, cultures, and the environment. ^A1093046
Contents Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare: an introduction -- Dramatizing environmental fear: King Lear's unpredictable natural spaces and domestic places -- Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing -- Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV -- Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia -- Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences -- Staging exotica and ecophobia -- The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as "go-between" -- Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion.
Abstract "This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of "Nature" in Shakespeare"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [155]-173) and index.
LCCN 2011005270
ISBN9780230112568
ISBN0230112560
Standard identifier# 40019383450

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PR3039 .E88 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold