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Ecocritical approaches to Renaissance literature.

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Abstract

This essay both presents educators with an overview of ecocritical approaches to Renaissance literature, as well as suggests ways they may be brought into the classroom. In particular, it provides a strategy for introducing students to the somewhat startling revelation that many of today's most topical environmental issues, such as deforestation, unchecked mining, development of wetlands, and the willful elimination of endangered species, were also pressing concerns for Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton.

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When confronted with the image of a literal dark cloud of air pollution hanging over Coketown in Dickens's Hard Times, a ...

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