VS-Periods - Genres - Concepts: Literature and Ecology in the Early Modern World
Katrina Spadaro
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While forests and pastures once served as the bedrock of an early modern “green” criticism, recent scholarship focuses on a much vaster colour spectrum - including blue waterways, frosty arctic ... Lesen Sie weiter
While forests and pastures once served as the bedrock of an early modern “green” criticism, recent scholarship focuses on a much vaster colour spectrum - including blue waterways, frosty arctic landscapes, ominous grey skies and the sedimented hues of stone. This course gives you an overview of how such diverse ecosystems, natural features, and meteorological events fuelled a powerful, and often anxious, early modern imaginary. Over the course of the semester, we will contextualise familiar early modern texts within an intellectual climate that was highly attuned to contemporary ecological changes and pressures (including coal pollution, deforestation, rapid urban development, and the “Mini Ice Age”) and which associated different modes and genres of writing with a rich variety of natural environments.
