Back to Nature |
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| Author:
| Watson, Robert N. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-322-51426-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $26.50 |
Book Description:
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Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, "Back to Nature" illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself.
Ranging widely across scholarly disciplines, "Back to Nature" illuminates the response of seventeenth-century culture, especially English literature, to the way urbanization, capitalism, Protestantism, colonialism, Skepticism, empiricism, and new technologies conspired to alienate people from both the earth and reality itself.