Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and MarvellThe focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that seventeenth-century poets, primarily John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, but also Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, Anne Finch, and others, responded to experimental proto-science and new technology in ways that we now call 'ecological' - concerned with watersheds and habitats and the lives of all creatures. It provides close readings of works by these poets in the contexts of natural history, philosophy, and theology as well as technology and land use, showing how they responded to what are currently considered ecological issues: deforestation, mining, air pollution, drainage of wetlands, destruction of habitats, the sentience and intelligence of animals, overbuilding, global commerce, the politics of land use, and relations between social justice and justice towards the other-than-human world. In this important book, Diane McColley demonstrates the language of poetry, the language of responsible science, and the language of moral and political philosophy all to be necessary parts of public discourse. |
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... History and criticism. 2. Literature and science—Great Britain—History—17th century. 3. Great Britain— Intellectual life—17th century. 4. Marvell, Andrew, 16211678—Knowledge— Natural history. 5. Milton, John, 16081674—Knowledge—Natural ...
... History and criticism. 2. Literature and science—Great Britain—History—17th century. 3. Great Britain— Intellectual life—17th century. 4. Marvell, Andrew, 16211678—Knowledge— Natural history. 5. Milton, John, 16081674—Knowledge—Natural ...
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... historical formation. We welcome proposals for books that address the many overlaps between modes of imaginative writing typical ... natural history. In order to reflect the nature of intellectual inquiry during the period, the series is ...
... historical formation. We welcome proposals for books that address the many overlaps between modes of imaginative writing typical ... natural history. In order to reflect the nature of intellectual inquiry during the period, the series is ...
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... perceive the wovenness of the natural world. By close reading of poems within the contexts of early modern natural history, philosophy, and theology, I hope to show Introduction: The State of Nature and the Problem Language.
... perceive the wovenness of the natural world. By close reading of poems within the contexts of early modern natural history, philosophy, and theology, I hope to show Introduction: The State of Nature and the Problem Language.
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Diane Kelsey McColley. modern natural history, philosophy, and theology, I hope to show the importance of this dimension of early modern studies and to persuade those who think that preRomantic and preDarwinian poetry, especially if it ...
Diane Kelsey McColley. modern natural history, philosophy, and theology, I hope to show the importance of this dimension of early modern studies and to persuade those who think that preRomantic and preDarwinian poetry, especially if it ...
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... Natural, as the Politick Body of this Great Nation . . . since, without ... history and philosophy: Henry Vaughan was a medical doctor and his brother ... natural history.3 These poets both embraced advances in the knowledge of nature and ...
... Natural, as the Politick Body of this Great Nation . . . since, without ... history and philosophy: Henry Vaughan was a medical doctor and his brother ... natural history.3 These poets both embraced advances in the knowledge of nature and ...
Contents
Earth Mining Monotheism and Mountain Theology | |
Air Water Woods | |
The Lives of Plants | |
Animals Ornithology and the Ethics of Empathy | |
Animal Ethics and Radical Justice | |
Miltons Prophetic Epics | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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