Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination (1) (Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures)

By: Susan C. Staub

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Synopsis: Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices. Shakespeare’s Botanical Imagination moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeare’s writings. The essays gathered here all emphasize the interdependence and entanglement of plants with humans and human life, whether culturally, socially, or materially, and vividly illustrate the fundamental role plants play in human identity. As they attend to the affinities and shared materiality between plants and humans in Shakespeare’s works, these essays complicate the comfortable Aristotelian hierarchy of human-animal-plant. And as they do, they often challenge the privileged position of humans in relation to non-human life..

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 302 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040786727
Related ISBNs:: 9781040782491, 9781041185987, 9789463721332, 9781003703587
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/01/25
Copyrighted By:: Taylor & Francis Group
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Outdoors and Nature, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Susan C. Staub