Bestial Oblivion War Humanism and Ecology in Early Modern England 1st Edition by Benjamin Bertram 1351780933 9781351780933

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ISBN 10: 1351780933
ISBN 13: 9781351780933
Author: Benjamin Bertram

Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how warfare unsettles ideas of the human, yet ultimately contributes to, and is then perpetuated by, anthropocentrism. Bertram’s study of early modern warfare’s impact on human-animal and human-technology relationships draws upon posthumanist theory, animal studies, and the new materialisms, focusing on responses to the Anglo-Spanish War, the Italian Wars, the Wars of Religion, the colonization of Ireland, and Jacobean “peace.” The monograph examines a wide range of texts—essays, drama, military treatises, paintings, poetry, engravings, war reports, travel narratives—and authors—Erasmus, Machiavelli, Digges, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Coryate, Bacon—to show how an intricate web of perpetual war altered the perception of the physical environment as well as the ideologies and practices establishing what it meant to be human.

Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England 1st Table of contents:

1 Erasmus and the Dung Beetle; or, Human Exceptionalism and Its Discontents
2 Machiavelli, Virtù, and the Ecology of War
3 Iron Men: Thomas Digges, A Larum for London, and the Elizabethan Cyborg
4 War and Resilience: Tamburlaine the Great and the Anglo-Spanish War
5 Bestial Oblivion in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
6 Thomas Coryate, the Lousy Humanist
7 Humanity Under Siege: Francis Bacon’s Human Empire and the Capitalocene

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