| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Walker Cowen Memorial Prize
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Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: "Usufruct" and the Eighteenth Century in Environmental Criticism -- 1. The Usufructuary Ethos: Roots and Branches -- 2. Trees, Posterity, and the Socio-Environmental Landlord -- 3. Pope and the Usufructuary Ethics of the "Use of Riches" -- 4. Monocultures, Georgics, and the Transformation of the Usufructuary Ethos -- Conclusion: The Usufructuary Ethos-Legacies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Recent Winners of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize |
| Summary |
"The Usufructuary Ethos traces an overlooked thread of environmental thought from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteeenth-century poems of colonial commerce, attending to the particular political, economic, and environmental pressures that shaped, transformed, and ultimately sidelined it"-- Provided by publisher |
| Awards |
"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmentalism in literature.
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Environmentalism in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Great Britain.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Ecocriticism -- Great Britain.
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Ecocriticism. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Drew, Erin E. Usufructuary ethos. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021 9780813945798 (DLC) 2020051266 |
| ISBN |
9780813945811 (electronic book) |
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081394581X (electronic book) |
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9780813945798 (hardcover acid-free paper) |
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9780813945804 (paperback acid-free paper) |
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