Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity

1. Introduction: In Dialogue with Nature: New Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity
Jennifer Munroe, Rebecca Laroche

1. Rethinking the Familiar: The Woman-Nature Connection

2. N/nature and the Difference “She” Makes
Lynne Dickson Bruckner

3. First “Mother of Science”: Milton’s Eve, Knowledge, and Nature
Jennifer Munroe

4. Ecofeminist Eve: Artists Reading Milton’s Heroine
Wendy Furman-Adams, Virginia James Tufte

2. Rethinking Early Modern Domestic Practice

5. On Elizabeth Isham’s “Oil of Swallows”: Animal Slaughter and Early Modern Women’s Medical Recipes
Michelle DiMeo, Rebecca Laroche

6. Woolley’s Mouse: Early Modern Recipe Books and the Uses of Nature
David Goldstein

7. Preserving Nature in Hannah Woolley’s The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet
Amy L. Tigner

3. Rethinking the Landscape

8. “Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers”: The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham’s My Booke of Rememberance
Hillary M. Nunn

9. The Secrets of Grafting in Wroth’s Urania
Vin Nardizzi, Miriam Jacobson

10. Language “like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass”: Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague
Emily Bowles

11. Afterword
Rebecca Bushnell

Nyckelord: Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Feminism, Environment, general