Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives

First collection devoted to the Poly-Olbion, bringing out in particular its concerns with nature and the environment.

List of contents

Introduction - Andrew McRae and Philip Schwyzer
Part I: The Project of Poly-Olbion
1. Drayton's Copious Chorography - Angus Vine
2. 'If the Page satisfie not, inquire in the Margine': The Ordinatio and Mise-en-Page of Poly-Olbion - Sjoerd Levelt
Part II: Environment and Ecology
3. Of Albion's 'sundry varying soyles': The Land and its Human Occupants in Poly-Olbion - Andrew McRae
4. Bioregional Visions in Poly-Olbion - Todd Andrew Borlik
5. Drayton's Fish - Andrew Hadfield
6. Curls to Curled Waves: Romance and Ecomaterial Assemblages in Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion - Shannon Garner-Balandrin
7. Maritime Olbion; or, 'th'Oceans Island' - Bernhard Klein
Part III: The British Past in Drayton's Songs and Selden's Illustrations
8. Locating Continuity: The Early Religion of Albion in Michael Drayton's Poly-Olbion - Daniel Cattell
9. Michael Drayton: National Bard and Genealogist - Sara Trevisan
10. 'The Wonders of the Deep': Drayton, Selden, and Deep Time - Philip Schwyzer
Bibliography

Summary

First collection devoted to the Poly-Olbion, bringing out in particular its concerns with nature and the environment.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Andrew Borlik, Sjoerd Levelt, Andrew McRae, Philip Schwyzer, Angus Vine
• Assisted by: Andrew McRae (Editor), Andrew (Contributor) McRae (Editor), Philip Schwyzer (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781843845485
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-548-5
• No. of pages: 267
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Series: Studies in Renaissance Literat; Studies in Renaissance Literature; Studies in Renaissance Literat
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus