Abstract
Aemilia Lanyer's country house poem, "The Description of Cookham," offers a unique challenge for ecocritical analysis and raises the question: What method of reading best offers an ecological pathway through the poem's pastoral panegyric? In this chapter I argue that, while nature enters the poem as an empathetic topography of human loss and nostalgia, this figuring is a clever rhetorical strategy that is deeply ironic.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching |
| Editors | Jennifer Munroe, Edward J Geisweidt, Lynne Bruckner |
| Place of Publication | Farnham, United Kingdom |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing |
| Pages | 99-108 |
| Edition | 1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781472416735, 9781472416759, 9781472416742, 9781472416728 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- British and Irish Literature
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