Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes : Ecotheory and the Anglo-Saxon Environmental Imagination.
Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environ...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments/Dedication
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Imagining the Sea in Secular and Religious Poetry
- 3. Ruined Landscapes
- 4. Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness
- 5. Animal Natures
- 6. Objects and Hyperobjects
- 7. Conclusion: Ecologies of the Past and the Future
- Works Cited
- Index.