What has popularized and expanded the hermeneutic range of ecocriticism has in some
ways also made ecocriticism seem immune to the challenges presented by so much of …

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Sweeping across scholarly
disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern …

Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early
modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species …

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare
studies to the assumption that the category" human" is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in …

This essay offers ecocritical discussions of animals in Shakespeare, in the spirit of the
activist goals that ecocriticism cherishes. Balancing close readings with theory, the essay …

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered
the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature …

If questions about nutritional value are set aside, what purpose does the act of consuming
an animal possess? I take this as my central question here because meat-eating is not just …

The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature: Over the Fence analyzes the
ways in which myths about farmed animals' lives are perpetuated in children's materials …

It has become an increasingly less provocative proposition that ecocriticism might have
something to say about Shakespeare, increasingly less with every new conference session …

This essay suggests a way of reading the monumental still lifes of game painted by Frans
Snyders and others in the first half of the seventeenth century. Previous scholarship has …