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4. Unsoiled Soil and “Fleshly Slime”:

Representations of Reproduction in Spenser’s Legend of Chastity
© 2021 Penn State University Press

© 2021 Penn State University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction: 1
  5. 1. Compost/Composition 21
  6. 2. Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral 41
  7. 3. Visions of Soil and Body Management: 59
  8. 4. Unsoiled Soil and “Fleshly Slime”: 79
  9. 5. Groping Golgotha: 103
  10. 6. Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil 117
  11. 7. Fertility versus Firepower: 129
  12. 8. Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England 149
  13. 9. Manuring Eden: 171
  14. Afterword 195
  15. Notes 203
  16. Bibliography 253
  17. About the Contributors 285
  18. Index 289
Ground-Work
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271093529-006

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction: 1
  5. 1. Compost/Composition 21
  6. 2. Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral 41
  7. 3. Visions of Soil and Body Management: 59
  8. 4. Unsoiled Soil and “Fleshly Slime”: 79
  9. 5. Groping Golgotha: 103
  10. 6. Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil 117
  11. 7. Fertility versus Firepower: 129
  12. 8. Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England 149
  13. 9. Manuring Eden: 171
  14. Afterword 195
  15. Notes 203
  16. Bibliography 253
  17. About the Contributors 285
  18. Index 289
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