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Ground-Work : English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Medieval and Renaissance Literary StudiesPublisher: University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271093536
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ground-WorkDDC classification:
  • 820.936
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Renaissance Soil Science, Hillary Eklund -- 1. Compost/Composition, Frances E. Dolan -- 2. Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral, Tamsin Badcoe -- 3. Visions of Soil and Body Management: The Almanac in Richard II, Bonnie Lander Johnson -- 4. Unsoiled Soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of Reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity, Lindsay Ann Reid -- 5. Groping Golgotha: Soil Improvement in the Towneley and Chester Shepherds' Plays, Rob Wakeman -- 6. Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil, Keith M. Botelho -- 7. Fertility versus Firepower: Shakespeare's Contested Soil Ecologies, Randall Martin -- 8. Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England, Hillary Eklund -- 9. Manuring Eden: Biological Conversions in Paradise Lost, David B. Goldstein -- Afterword, Sharon O'Dair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Toward a Renaissance Soil Science, Hillary Eklund -- 1. Compost/Composition, Frances E. Dolan -- 2. Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral, Tamsin Badcoe -- 3. Visions of Soil and Body Management: The Almanac in Richard II, Bonnie Lander Johnson -- 4. Unsoiled Soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of Reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity, Lindsay Ann Reid -- 5. Groping Golgotha: Soil Improvement in the Towneley and Chester Shepherds' Plays, Rob Wakeman -- 6. Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil, Keith M. Botelho -- 7. Fertility versus Firepower: Shakespeare's Contested Soil Ecologies, Randall Martin -- 8. Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England, Hillary Eklund -- 9. Manuring Eden: Biological Conversions in Paradise Lost, David B. Goldstein -- Afterword, Sharon O'Dair -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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