Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Political Ecology and Literary History from Langland to Spenser 1
5. 1.Manorial Political Ecology and Passus 6 of Piers Plowman 22
6. 2. Ecologies of Antifraternalism in Pierce the Ploughman’s Crede 48
7. 3 The Drone and the Sovereign. Labor and Consumption in Mum and the Sothsegger 68
8. 4 The Political Ecology of Primitive Accumulation in English Reformation Literature 91
9. 5 Why Colin Clout Came to Ireland. The Piers Plowman Tradition and Spenser’s Late Pastorals 130
10. 6 Colonial Political Ecology and A View of the Present State of Ireland 155
11. Conclusion. Liberatory Dreams and Colonialist Visions 170
12. Notes 179
13. Bibliography 211
14. Index 227