Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity

By focusing on various forms of "dialogue," these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening in order to illuminate ways that early modern English women interacted with their natural surroundings. The emphasis on dialogue brings ecocritics, feminists, and ecofeminists into conversation and offers fruitful new insights.

Jennifer Munroe is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Gender and the Garden in Early Modern Literature and the Editor of Making Gardens of Their Own: Gardening Manuals for Women, 1500-1750. Rebecca Laroche is a Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She is the author of Medical Authority and Englishwomen's Herbal Texts 1550-1650.

Foreword--Mary O’Connor and Sara Mendelson * Introduction--Jennifer Munroe and Rebecca Laroche * Part I: Rethinking the Familiar: The Woman-Nature Connection * Nature and the Difference ‘She’ Makes--Lynne Bruckner * First "Mother of Science": Milton’s Eve, Knowledge, and Nature--Jennifer Munroe * Ecofeminist Eve: Illustrators Reading Milton's Heroine--Wendy Furman-Adams * Part II: Rethinking the ‘Ecofeminist’ in Early Modern Domestic Practice * On the “Oil of Swallows”: Early Modern Women’s Material Practice of Medicine and the Reliability of the Textual Record--Michelle DiMeo and Rebecca Laroche * Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Hannah Woolley’s Material Politics--David Goldstein * Preserving Nature: in Hannah Woolley’s The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet--Amy Tigner * Part III: Rethinking/Re-Reading the Landscape * "Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers": The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham's Book of Rememberance--Hillary Nunn * Grafting and Graffiti in Wroth’s Urania--Miriam Jacobson and Vin Nardizzi * Language "like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass": Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague--Emily Bowles * Afterword--Rebecca Bushnell

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