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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.
History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Ecology in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- National characteristics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Early modern. --- 1500-1700 --- Natur. --- Literatur --- Umwelt --- Englisch --- Littérature. --- Nature. --- Geschichte 1665-1726 --- Littérature anglaise --- Nature --- Écologie --- Paysage --- Voyage --- Caractère national --- Dans la littérature.
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"The Other Exchange investigates the ways in which English literature represents women, masterless men, and foreigners in the economic and sociocultural foundation of the development of middle-class consciousness in early modern England"--
English literature --- Social classes in literature. --- Literature and society --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1799
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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.
English literature --- Ecology in literature. --- Nature in literature. --- Landscapes in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- National characteristics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 1500-1700 --- British literature --- women's studies --- environmental studies --- travel writing
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"These essays consider the American Revolution in new contexts, elucidating global interdependencies that took root in the eighteenth century through unlikely alliances, cultural transmissions, and complex networks of trade. The first part of the book centers on migration of ideas across cultures on the Continent, Scotland, and Ireland, particularly among intellectuals and through print. The essays in the second section articulate how revolutions fostered largely unacknowledged transatlantic and transoceanic exchanges, in the West Indies and in the first penal colonies of Australia, along the Celtic Fringe and Pacific Rim, and in the vast territories through which slavery circulated. The contributors examine a range of texts, from novels and drama to diplomatic correspondence, letters of common sailors, political treatises, newspapers, accounting ledgers, naval records, and burial rituals (many from non-Anglophone sources)"--
World politics. --- Civilization --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- American influences. --- United States --- History --- Influence.
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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.
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