Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 15501719

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Traces of shipwreck ecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne and also in sermons, tales of survival, and diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors. Offering the first ecocritical account of early modern shipwreck narratives, Shipwreck Modernity reveals the surprisingly modern truths to be found in these early stories of ecological collapse.

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"A compelling, provocative, even lyrical piece of scholarship that will undoubtedly inaugurate new critical discussions in the fields of maritime humanities, eco-criticism, early modern English literature, and shipwreck studies."Josiah Blackmore, Harvard University

"Mentz has shaped an account that looks poised to become a key ecocritical text in the years to come."Glasgow Review of Books

"Steve Mentz offers close and careful readings of early modern texts that are contextualized and scholarly, but also politically engaged."The Sixteenth Century Journal

"This is a remarkable and valuable scholarly work that offers much beyond its analysis of early modern texts and histories."Renaissance Quarterly

"A thoughtful exploration of the modalities of how and why culinary practices and tastes changed over time."Comitatus 48

"Shipwreck Modernity offers useful challenges to early modernists to re- think our periodization schemes, to environmental historians to more fully consider the ocean, and to all readers to ponder how to stay afloat amidst our ecological crises."Journal of Early Modern History

Author Bio

Steve Mentz is professor of English at St Johns University in New York City. He is author of At the Bottom of Shakespeares Ocean and Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction.