Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory and the Environmental Imagination (1) (Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures)
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- Synopsis
- Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people's 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.
- Copyright:
- 2017
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 216 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781040791530
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789089649447, 9781040785553, 9781041175582, 9781003690856
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 10/01/25
- Copyrighted By:
- The author / Taylor & Francis Group
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts, Earth Sciences
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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