For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes
By Lowell Duckert. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
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, ...
Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird
By Katie Fallon. UPNE: Lebanon, NH, 2017
Perfectly adapted to its place in nature, the vulture retains its bad reputation. But is it deserved?
Turkey vultures, the most widely distributed and abundant scavenging birds of prey on the planet, are found from central Canada to the southern tip of Argentina, and nearly everywhere in between. In the United States we sometimes call them buzzards; in parts of Mexico the name is aura cabecirroja, in Uruguay jote cabeza colorada, ...
Placing John Haines
By James Perrin Warren. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2017.
John Haines arrived in Alaska, fresh out of the Navy, in 1947 and established a homestead seventy miles southeast of Fairbanks. He stayed there nearly twenty-five years, learning to live off the country: hunting, trapping, fishing, gathering berries, and growing vegetables. Those years formed him as a writer, and the interior of Alaska and its boreal forest influenced his poetry and prose and helped him find his unique voice.
Placing John Haines, the ...
Critical Ecofeminism
By Greta Gaard. Lexington Books: Lanham, MD, 2017.
Australian feminist philosopher Val Plumwood coined the term “critical ecofeminism” to “situate humans in ecological terms and nonhumans in ethical terms,” for “the two tasks are interconnected, and cannot be addressed properly in isolation from each other.” Variously using the terms “critical ecological feminism,” “critical antidualist ecological feminism,” and “critical ecofeminism,” Plumwood’s work developed amid a range of perspectives describing feminist intersections with ecopolitical issues—i.e., toxic production and toxic wastes, indigenous sovereignty, global economic justice, ...
Ibsen Studies
By Amir Hossain. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017.
Ibsen Studies focuses upon the critical evaluation of Henrik Ibsen and his literary writing in many respects. To write this book, the author selected the three major plays by Ibsen, including A Doll’s House, Ghosts, and An Enemy of the People. The aim of the author is to investigate the empowerment of women in the light of Ibsen’s attitudes and his critics. In this book, he has tried to highlight the social problems of 19th-century ...