Bestial Oblivion
War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England
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ISBN-13:
9780367666514
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.09.2020
Seiten:
282
Autor:
Benjamin Bertram
Gewicht:
399 g
Format:
229x152x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how early modern warfare unsettled ideas of the human yet ultimately contributed to, and was then perpetuated by, anthropocentrism.
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Erasmus and the Dung Beetle; or, Human Exceptionalism and Its Discontents; Chapter 2 Machiavelli, Virtù, and the Ecology of War; Chapter 3 Iron Men: Thomas Digges, A Larum for London, and the Elizabethan Cyborg; Chapter 4 War and Resilience: Tamburlaine the Great and the Anglo-Spanish War; Chapter 5 Bestial Oblivion in Shakespeare's Hamlet; Chapter 6 Thomas Coryate, the Lousy Humanist; Chapter 7 Humanity Under Siege: Francis Bacon's Human Empire and the Capitalocene; Author Index; Subject Index
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