The Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature (Hardcover)

Introduction: oeconomy and ecology; 1. The oeconomy of nature in seventeenth-century England; 2. Penshurst's parasites: Ben Jonson and the art of bad housekeeping; 3. The school of beasts: human and animal dwellings in Viret and Marvell; 4. Divine husbandry: providence and oikonomia in the works of George Herbert; 5. Labors of luxury: John Milton, Thomas Burnet, and the nature of human labor; Epilogue: from economy to ecology.