Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: In Dialogue with Nature: New Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
N/nature and the Difference “She” Makes....Pages 15-35
First “Mother of Science”: Milton’s Eve, Knowledge, and Nature....Pages 37-54
Ecofeminist Eve: Artists Reading Milton’s Heroine....Pages 55-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
On Elizabeth Isham’s “Oil of Swallows”: Animal Slaughter and Early Modern Women’s Medical Recipes....Pages 87-104
Woolley’s Mouse: Early Modern Recipe Books and the Uses of Nature....Pages 105-127
Preserving Nature in Hannah Woolley’s The Queen-Like Closet; or Rich Cabinet....Pages 129-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
“Goeing a broad to gather and worke the flowers”: The Domestic Geography of Elizabeth Isham’s My Booke of Rememberance....Pages 153-174
The Secrets of Grafting in Wroth’s Urania....Pages 175-194
Language “like a thousand little stars on the trees and on the grass”: Environmental inscription in Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague....Pages 195-210
Afterword....Pages 211-217
Back Matter....Pages 219-241