Jennifer Munroe: 4 books
by Jennifer Munroe
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new opportunities for social mobility. While recent work has addressed how middle class men used the garden to attain this mobility, the gendering...
by Jennifer Munroe, Rebecca Laroche
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both material and cultural, but it also investigates how this relationship is inherently entangled with...
Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts
A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Ecocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly ’green’; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use...
Making Gardens of Their Own: Advice for Women, 1550-1750
Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Three, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
During the period 1500-1750 a general shift in gardening practice took place, from which emerged three distinct types of gardens: (traditional) subsistence or kitchen gardens, aesthetic gardens, and gendered aesthetic gardens. The gardening and husbandry manuals published during the period, typified...