For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes - Softcover

Duckert, Lowell

 
9781517900472: For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1517900476 ISBN 13: 9781517900472
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Recent years have witnessed a surge in early modern ecostudies, many devoted to Shakespearean drama. Yet in this burgeoning discipline, travel writing appears moored in historicization, inorganic subjects are far less prevalent than organic ones, and freshwater sites are hardly visited. For All Waters explores these uncharted wetscapes.

Lowell Duckert shows that when playwrights and travel writers such as Sir Walter Raleigh physically interacted with rivers, glaciers, monsoons, and swamps, they composed "hydrographies," or bodily and textual assemblages of human and nonhuman things that dissolved notions of human autonomy and its singular narrativity. With a playful, punning touch woven deftly into its theoretical rigor, For All Waters disputes fantasies of ecological solitude that would keep our selves high and dry and that would try to sustain a political ecology excluding water and the poor. The lives of both humans and waterscapes can be improved simultaneously through direct engagement with wetness.

For All Waters concludes by investigating waterscapes in peril today-West Virginia's chemical rivers and Iceland's vanishing glaciers-and outlining what we can learn from early moderns' eco-ontological lessons. By taking their soggy and storied matters to heart, and arriving at a greater realization of our shared wetness, we can conceive new directions to take within the hydropolitical crises afflicting us today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lowell Duckert is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University. He is coeditor of Elemental Ecocriticism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1517900476
ISBN 13 
9781517900472
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
312
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Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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