The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature

Dr. Elizabeth D. Gruber is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Teaching and research interests include early modern literature, Shakespearean adaptation, and ecocriticism and theory. Recent publications focus on the productive conjunctions of ecocriticism and early modern studies. Several articles as well as an earlier monograph Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking Cosmopolis (Routledge, 2017), advance ecocritical readings of diverse early modern texts. The goal of the present volume, The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature, is to track the birth of a new subset of the human, bringing out its eco-psychological implications and tracking their persisting importance.

Introduction: Ourselves Our Renaissance. The Verdancy of Critical Practice
Chapter 1: The Verdant Imagination in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Chapter 2: The Intermediating Self in Doctor Faustus
Chapter 3: Resisting Self-Erasure in Antony and Cleopatra
Chapter 4: Wrestling with the Eco-Self in The Duchess of Malfi
Chapter 5: Ecology and Selfhood in The Blazing World
Bibliography
Index