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Auteur(s) : Van Renen, Denys
Titre(s) : Nature and the new science in England, 1665-1726 [Texte imprimé] / Denys Van Renen
Publication : [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-254 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2018, 8
Lien à la collection : Oxford university studies in the Enlightenment (Print)
Note(s) : Bibliogr. 237-249. Index. - L'ouvrage porte l'ISSN de la collection précédente : 0435-2866
"When scholars of cultural studies consider representations of the land by British
writers, the Romantic poets continue to dominate the enquiry, as though the period
right before the intensification of the Industrial Revolution offers readers one last
glimpse of untarnished nature. Denys Van Renen instead examines the British authors
writing in the decades following the Restoration of Charles II, writers whose literary
works re-animate and re-embody the land as a site of dynamic interactions, and, through
this, reveal how various cultural systems and ecologies shape notions of self and
national identity. Van Renen presents a rich and varied cultural history of ecological
exchange--a history that begins in the 1660s, with Milton and Marvell's rejection
of established Renaissance constructs, and ends with Defoe's Farther Adventures, in
which the noise of the persistent howls of animals pierces human representational
systems, arguing that British literature from 1665-1726 represents a cognitive symbiosis
between human and non-human. As humans attempt to reduce the adverse effect of the
Anthropocene, the author ultimately proposes that the aesthetics of British writers
from the Restoration and early eighteenth century might be mobilized in order to rebind
humans to their environs."
Sujet(s) : Nature -- Dans la littérature
Genre ou forme : Littérature anglaise -- 18e siècle
Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-78694-137-4 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45585212f
Notice n° :
FRBNF45585212
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