Waste and the Wasters
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-83017-9 (ISBN)
While the scale of today’s crisis is unprecedented, environmental catastrophe is nothing new. Waste and the Wasters studies the late Middle Ages, when a convergence of land contraction, soil depletion, climate change, pollution, and plague subsumed Western Europe. In a culture lacking formal scientific methods, the task of explaining and coming to grips with what was happening fell to medieval poets. The poems they wrote used the terms “waste” or “wasters” to anchor trenchant critiques of people’s unsustainable relationships with the world around them and with each other. In this book, Eleanor Johnson shows how poetry helped medieval people understand and navigate the ecosystemic crises—both material and spiritual—of their time.
Eleanor Johnson is associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. She is the author of several books including, Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Introduction / Thinking and Talking Ecosystemically
Chapter One / The Five Disasters Facing Medieval Ecosystems
Chapter Two / The Laws of Waste: The Bible and the Common Law
Chapter Three / Waste in Sermons and Penitential Manuals: The Unjust Steward
Chapter Four / Winner and Waster: The Imperilment of the Land
Chapter Five / Wasters and Workers in Piers Plowman: Famine and Food Insecurity
Chapter Six / Chaucer’s Yeoman’s Wasting Body: Pollution and Contagion
Chapter Seven / The Wasted Lands of the Green Knight, and the Wasting of Camelot: Climate Change, Climate Revenge
Chapter Eight / Gardens, Bees, and Wastours: Political Waste and the Fantasy of Sustainability
Chapter Nine / Aftermath: From Wasting to Waste Matter
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-83017-9 / 0226830179 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-83017-9 / 9780226830179 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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