Ground-Work (English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science)

Synopsis

Introduction: Toward A Renaissance Soil Science / Hillary Eklund -- Compost/composition / Frances E. Dolan -- Richard Carew And The Matters Of The Littoral / Tamsin Badcoe -- Visions Of Soil And Body Management: The Almanac In Richard Ii / Bonnie Lander Johnson -- Unsoiled Soil And Fleshly Slime: Representations Of Reproduction In Spenser's Legend Of Chastity / Lindsay Ann Reid -- Groping Golgotha: Soil Improvement In The Towneley And Chester Shepherds' Plays / Rob Wakeman -- Winstanley And Postrevolutionary Soil / Keith M. Botelho -- Fertility Versus Firepower: Shakespeare's Contested Soil Ecologies / Randall Martin -- Wetlands Reclamation And The Fate Of The Local In Seventeenth Century England / Hillary Eklund -- Manuring Eden: Biological Conversions In Paradise Lost / David B. Goldstein -- Afterword / Sharon O'dait. Edited By Hillary Eklund. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.