Shakespeare's ocean : an ecocritical exploration /

Shakespeare's ocean : an ecocritical exploration /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Brayton, Daniel.
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Under the sign of nature Under the sign of nature.
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Knowledge -- Natural history. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. Sea in literature. Ecocriticism. Ecocriticism. Natural history. Sea in literature. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11132404

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ISBN:	0813932270 9780813932279 9780813932262 0813932262
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Study of the sea--both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation--has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare's Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a new course for ecocritical scholarship. Shakespeare lived during a time of great expansion of geographical knowledge. The world in which he imagined his plays was newly understood to be a sphere covered with water. In vital readings of works ranging from The Comedy of Errors to the valedictory The Tempest, Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare's remarkable conceptual mastery of the early modern maritime world and reveals a powerful benthic imagination at work."--Project Muse.
Other form:	Print version: 9780813932262 0813932262

Table of Contents:

Shakespeare's Ocean; Contents; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Shakespeare and the Global Ocean; 1 Backs to the Sea?; 2 Consider the Crab; 3 Shakespeare's Benthic Imagination; 4 Tidal Bodies; 5 Royal Fish; 6 Shakespeare among the Fishmongers; 7 Prospero's Maps; Coda Toward a Terraqueous Ecocriticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index.