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The Greener Inhumanity of Renaissance Pastoral: A Posthumanist Reading of the Bucolic Literature of Early Modern England and Italy

Description:

In a new analysis of Renaissance pastoral that draws on ecocriticism, queer theory, and a historicist approach, this dissertation finds a green and inhuman world that opposes the modern view that humans differ significantly from, and enjoy a right of dominion over, nonhuman species and the environment. Through readings of...

Keyword:

Machiavelli, ecocriticism, Shakespeare, nature, posthumanism, and pastoral

Subject:

Comparative literature, Italian literature, and English literature

Creator:

Pederson, Alicia Sands

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

10/07/2021

Date Created:

2021-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15618 and etdadmin_upload_829081