Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes
Heide Estes.
- 1 online resource (1 electronic resource 208 pages)
- Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures .
- Environmental humanities in pre-modern cultures. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Imagining the sea in secular and religious poetry -- Ruined landscapes -- Rewriting Guthlac's Wilderness -- Animal natures -- Objects and hyperobjects -- Conclusion: ecologies of the past and the future.
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Literary scholars have traditionally understood landscapes, whether natural or manmade, as metaphors for humanity instead of concrete settings for peoples actions. This book accepts the natural world as such by investigating how Anglo-Saxons interacted with and conceived of their lived environments. Examining Old English poems, such as 'Beowulf' and 'Judith', as well as descriptions of natural events from the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' and other documentary texts, Heide Estes shows that Anglo-Saxon ideologies which view nature as diametrically opposed to humans, and the natural world as designed for human use, have become deeply embedded in our cultural heritage, language, and more.
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Ecocriticism. Landscape in literature. Nature in literature. English literature--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100 Umwelt Literatur Ecocriticism Altenglisch Nature in literature. Landscapes in literature. Ecology in literature. Ecocriticism. Ecology in literature. Landscapes in literature. Ecocriticism. Nature in literature.