Estok, Simon C.

Ecocriticism and Shakespeare reading ecophobia / [electronic resource] : Simon C. Estok. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - x, 182 p. : ill. - Literatures, cultures, and the environment . - Literatures, cultures, and the environment. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare * Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places * Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing * Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV * Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia * Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences * Staging exotica and ecophobia * The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as "go-between" * Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion.

"This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of "Nature" in Shakespeare"--


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Knowledge--Natural history.


Ecocriticism.
Nature in literature.
Human ecology in literature.


Electronic books.

PR3039 / .E88 2011

822.3/3

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