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11. Powtes, Protest and (Eco)politics in the English Fens
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction: Theologies, Economies and Ecologies of the River 1
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Part I Conceptualising the River
- 1. Rivers of Milk, Honey, Tears and Treasures: Mapping Salvation in Early Modern English Devotional Poetry 21
- 2. ‘Plenteous Rivers’: Waterways as Resources, Threats and the Heart of the Community in Early Modern England 42
- 3. Rivers and Contested Territories in the Works of Shakespeare 61
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Part II Writing the River
- 4. The Navigation of the Trent and William Sampson’s The Vow-Breaker (1636) 83
- 5. Ship of Fools and Slow Boat to Hell: The Literary Voyages of the Gravesend Barge 101
- 6. Rivers, Monstrosity and National Identity in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler 124
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Part III Rivers and Money
- 7. ‘Your Innes and Alehouses Are Brookes and Rivers’: John Taylor and Free-flowing Rivers of Ale 143
- 8. The Rose and the Riverside 168
- 9. ‘As Water Mill, Made Rags and Shreds to Sweate’: Fluvial Bodies and Fluminous Geographies 187
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Part IV Ecocritical Approaches
- 10. ‘Insatiable [Gourmandize] Thus All Things Doth Devour’: Reading the Threat of Human Greed along the Rivers of Early Modern England 211
- 11. Powtes, Protest and (Eco)politics in the English Fens 231
- 12. Shakespeare’s Waterways: Premonitions of an Environmental Collapse 250
- Conclusions: Rivers of Life and Death 269
- Notes on Contributors 273
- Index 277
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction: Theologies, Economies and Ecologies of the River 1
-
Part I Conceptualising the River
- 1. Rivers of Milk, Honey, Tears and Treasures: Mapping Salvation in Early Modern English Devotional Poetry 21
- 2. ‘Plenteous Rivers’: Waterways as Resources, Threats and the Heart of the Community in Early Modern England 42
- 3. Rivers and Contested Territories in the Works of Shakespeare 61
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Part II Writing the River
- 4. The Navigation of the Trent and William Sampson’s The Vow-Breaker (1636) 83
- 5. Ship of Fools and Slow Boat to Hell: The Literary Voyages of the Gravesend Barge 101
- 6. Rivers, Monstrosity and National Identity in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler 124
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Part III Rivers and Money
- 7. ‘Your Innes and Alehouses Are Brookes and Rivers’: John Taylor and Free-flowing Rivers of Ale 143
- 8. The Rose and the Riverside 168
- 9. ‘As Water Mill, Made Rags and Shreds to Sweate’: Fluvial Bodies and Fluminous Geographies 187
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Part IV Ecocritical Approaches
- 10. ‘Insatiable [Gourmandize] Thus All Things Doth Devour’: Reading the Threat of Human Greed along the Rivers of Early Modern England 211
- 11. Powtes, Protest and (Eco)politics in the English Fens 231
- 12. Shakespeare’s Waterways: Premonitions of an Environmental Collapse 250
- Conclusions: Rivers of Life and Death 269
- Notes on Contributors 273
- Index 277