Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes ：Ecotheory and the Anglo-Saxon Environmental Imagination ( Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures )

Publication subTitle ：Ecotheory and the Anglo-Saxon Environmental Imagination

Publication series ：Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures

Author： Heide Estes  

Publisher： Amsterdam University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9789048528387

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789089649447

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword： 文学评论、文学欣赏

Language： ENG

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Description

Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for people’s actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as Beowulf and Judith, as well as descriptions of natural events from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies that view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.

Chapter

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Dedication

1. Introduction

Anglo-Saxon Landscapes: Archaeological and Historical Evidence

Defining Ecocritical Terms

Environmental Criticisms and Ecological Theories

Ecocriticism and Anglo-Saxon Studies

Anglo-Saxon Texts and Ecocriticisms

2. Imagining the Sea in Secular and Religious Poetry

Introduction

Sea Crossings: Elene, Andreas, Exodus

Beowulf and the Sea-Creatures

Marsh in Beowulf

Ecofeminism and the Other

Menstrual Blood and Amniotic Flood: Andreas

Conclusion

3. Ruined Landscapes

Introduction

Roman Past and Mutable Present

Imagined Biblical Origins

Constructed Danish Memories

Conclusion

4. Rewriting Guthlac’s Wilderness

Introduction

Postcolonial Ecocriticism

Guthlac as Warrior

Guthlac as Hermit

Britons as/and Demons

Guthlac A and the ‘beorg’

Conclusion

5. Animal Natures

Introduction

Eating Animals As Cultural Norm

Animals, Humans, and Reason

Animal Aesthetics and Agency

Conclusion

6. Objects and Hyperobjects

Introduction

Decentering the Human

Gender and Ethnicity as Hyperobjects

Conclusion

7. Conclusion: Ecologies of the Past and the Future

Ecocriticisms in Dialogue

Some Proposals for Future Research

After the Anglo-Saxons

Ecocritical Ethics and Activist Scholarship

Works Cited

Index

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