Writing the Forest in Early Modern England: A Sylvan Pastoral Nation

by Jeffrey S. Theis

In Writing the Forest in Early Modern England: A Sylvan Pastoral Nation, Jeffrey S. Theis focuses on pastoral Literary Studies in early modern England as an emerging form of nature writing. In particular, Theis analyzes what happens when pastoral writing is set in forests--what he terms sylvan pastoral. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, forests and woodlands played an instrumental role in the formation of individual and national...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820704237
• ISBN13: 9780820704234
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"