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- catalog abstract ""According to the tenets of ecofeminism, there are explicit connections between society's treatment of women and the degradation of our environment, connections made apparent in the patriarchal devaluation of women and nature. In this inquiry into the contributions of early modern English women writers to ecological thought, Sylvia Bowerbank uncovers the historical roots of contemporary debates within ecofeminism as found in the works of such major literary figures as Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Mary Wollstonecraft." "In early modern England, women became involved in the politics of nature during a volatile period of scientific advances and religious controversies that opened new rights, roles, and responsibilities for women. For the two centuries covered in this book, Bowerbank describes a range of choices made by literary women in negotiating their place within the broader discourse on nature and humanity's changing relationship to it. We learn about Wroth's gendered critique of pastoral fantasies and green utopias, Cavendish's resistance to the philosophy that declared "Great Nature" dead, and Wollstonecraft's opposition to world capitalism and local subsistence. Anna Seward champions the local as a site of environmental well-being and the eighteenth-century invention of "the study of nature" as a legitimate field of intellectual inquiry." "Speaking for Nature explores this rich, diverse, and often contradictory legacy of ecological thought, the value of which is only just being appreciated and evaluated by present-day environmentalists and feminists."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13302871.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""According to the tenets of ecofeminism, there are explicit connections between society's treatment of women and the degradation of our environment, connections made apparent in the patriarchal devaluation of women and nature. In this inquiry into the contributions of early modern English women writers to ecological thought, Sylvia Bowerbank uncovers the historical roots of contemporary debates within ecofeminism as found in the works of such major literary figures as Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish, and Mary Wollstonecraft."".
- catalog description ""In early modern England, women became involved in the politics of nature during a volatile period of scientific advances and religious controversies that opened new rights, roles, and responsibilities for women. For the two centuries covered in this book, Bowerbank describes a range of choices made by literary women in negotiating their place within the broader discourse on nature and humanity's changing relationship to it. We learn about Wroth's gendered critique of pastoral fantasies and green utopias, Cavendish's resistance to the philosophy that declared "Great Nature" dead, and Wollstonecraft's opposition to world capitalism and local subsistence.".
- catalog description "Anna Seward champions the local as a site of environmental well-being and the eighteenth-century invention of "the study of nature" as a legitimate field of intellectual inquiry." "Speaking for Nature explores this rich, diverse, and often contradictory legacy of ecological thought, the value of which is only just being appreciated and evaluated by present-day environmentalists and feminists."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-275) and index.".
- catalog description "Radical nostalgia in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomeries Urania -- Nature as Trickster : the philosophical laughter of Margaret Cavendish -- The cultivation of good nature -- Millennial bodies : giving birth to new nature in the late seventeenth century -- If animals could talk : ecological dialogues for children -- Defending local places : Anna Seward as environmental writer -- "The bones of the world" : Mary Wollstonecraft as ecofeminist critic.".
- catalog extent "xii, 287 p., 12 p. of plates :".
- catalog hasFormat "Speaking for nature.".
- catalog identifier "0801878721 (Hardcover : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Speaking for nature.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Speaking for nature.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "820.9/36 22".
- catalog subject "Ecofeminism England.".
- catalog subject "Ecology in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Women authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Nature in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR113 .B68 2004".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Radical nostalgia in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomeries Urania -- Nature as Trickster : the philosophical laughter of Margaret Cavendish -- The cultivation of good nature -- Millennial bodies : giving birth to new nature in the late seventeenth century -- If animals could talk : ecological dialogues for children -- Defending local places : Anna Seward as environmental writer -- "The bones of the world" : Mary Wollstonecraft as ecofeminist critic.".
- catalog title "Speaking for nature : women and ecologies of early modern England / Sylvia Bowerbank.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".