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Author Estes, Heide (Heide Ruth), author.

Title Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes : ecotheory and the environmental imagination / Heide Estes.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 electronic resource (208 pages).
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Series Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures
Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Imagining the sea in secular and religious poetry -- Ruined landscapes -- Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness -- Animal natures -- Objects and hyperobjects -- Conclusion: ecologies of the past and the future.
Summary Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for peoples actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as 'Beowulf' and 'Judith', as well as descriptions of natural events from the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
Access Open Access EbpS
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Ecocriticism.
Landscapes in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Ecology in literature.
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
Nature in literature.
Landscape in literature.
Ecocriticism.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Ecotheory and the environmental imagination
Other Form: Print version: Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017] 9789089649447 (DLC) 2017466435
ISBN 9789089649447 hardcover
9089649441 hardcover
9789048528387 ebook
9048528380