 | Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance Subjects: English literature -- Early modern 1500–1700 -- History and criticism; Nature in literature; Pastoral literature English -- History and criticism; Philosophy of nature in literature; Human ecology in literature; Renaissance -- England; Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself. Robert N. Watson is Professor of English and Associate Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous books include The Rest Is Silence: Death as Annihilation in the English Renaissance, Ben Jonson's Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperialism in the Comedies, and Shakespeare and the Hazards of Ambition. |
