Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England

List of contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Facing Fish
1 Home Ecologies in the Treatyse of fysshynge with an Angle
2 Donne’s Fish Biographies
3 The Fishing Lines of John Dennys
4 Shakespeare’s Angling Devices in Antony and Cleopatra
5 The Interrupted Aquatic Hunt in Wroth’s Urania
6 The Quickening of Walton’s Incomplete Angler

Conclusion: Killing and Conservation

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Myra E. Wright is a Lecturer in English at Bates College, Maine.

Summary

Myra Wright takes ecocritical studies on an interdisciplinary turn toward the water with her new research monograph, The Poetics of Angling in Early Modern England. This book aims to instill deep sympathy between the art of angling and the art of writing, and for the centrality of fish in early modern conceptions of humanity.

Product details

• Authors: Myra E. Wrigh, Myra E. Wright
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367664930
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66493-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / Fishing, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, NATURE / Animals / Fish, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / Poetry