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The concept of nature in early modern English literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Remien, Peter, 1980- (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: U.K: C.U.P, 2019.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Oeconomy and ecology
  • The oeconomy of nature in seventeenth-century England
  • Penshurst's parasites: Ben Jonson and the art of bad housekeeping
  • The school of beasts: human and animal dwellings in Viret and Marvell
  • Divine husbandry: providence and oikonomia in the works of George Herbert
  • Labors of luxury: John Milton, Thomas Burnet, and the nature of human labor
  • Epilogue: From economy to ecology.