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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Toward a Genealogy of Ecological Feminism I. The Risky Politics of Speaking for Nature II. Harmonious Woman & the Gendering of Sustainable Progress III. Overview of the Book Part One. Romancing the Forest Chapter 1. Radical Nostalgia in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomeries Urania I. The Topographia of Urania: A Gendered Sense of Place II. Blood Sport: Open Air Exercises of the Aristocracy III. Story-telling in the Forest: The Power of Narrative Chapter 2. Nature as Trickster: The Philosophical Laughter of Margaret Cavendish I. Margaret Cavendish and the Dissolution of Sherwood Forest II. On Being "Full of Admiration" III. Great Nature is a Trickster IV. Reclaiming the Country Life Part Two. Piety and Ecology Chapter 3. The Cultivation of Good Nature I. Amiability and Mortification II. "Lady Harmonia": Self-Composure in the Diaries of Mary Rich III. The Value of Time: Catherine Talbot as Superwoman Chapter 4. Millennial Bodies: Giving Birth to New Nature in the late 17th Century I. Bodies of Evidence II. Virtual and Lived Realities III. Bright Bodies: Labouring towards a New Subjectivity Part Three. HOME ECOLOGY Chapter 5. If Animals Could Talk: Ecological Dialogues for Children I. Complementarity: Soft and Hard Ecologies II. The Study of Nature: Ecological Exercises III. Eating Animals and Saying Grace: The Economy of Charity Chapter 6. Defending Local Places: Anna Seward as Environmental Writer I. Eyam: "Memory's Local Spell" II. Lichfield as Storied Place III. Llangollen Vale: In Search of Hygeia, Goddess of Health Part Four. Thinking Globally Chapter 7. "The Bones of the World": Mary Wollstonecraft as Ecofeminist Critic I. Home as a Bastille of Nature II. "Sovereign of the Waste" III. Speaking as Cassandra: The Future of Woman and Nature Afterword: A View from Cootes Paradise, Canada Notes Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism, Nature in literature, English literature Women authors History and criticism, English literature 18th century History and criticism, Women and literature England History 17th century, Women and literature England History 18th century, Ecofeminism England, Ecology in literature