Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature, which I co-edited with Steve Mentz, is now out in print from Amsterdam University Press! Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understandingContinue reading “Water and Cognition in Early Modern English Literature”
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Ecocriticism, global literature, and the postcolonial landscape.
Annotated Bibliography Bennett, Michael. “Anti-Pastoralism, Frederick Douglass, and the Nature of Slavery,” Beyond Nature Writing: expanding the boundaries of ecocriticism, edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R Wallace, Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 2001. https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.plymouth.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2001130092&site=ehost-live&authtype=sso&custid=plymouth Bennett criticizes the two standard domains of ecocriticism – the pastoral and wilderness – using Frederick Douglass’ slave narrative. HisContinue reading “Ecocriticism, global literature, and the postcolonial landscape.”
