Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Renaissance Soil Science, Hillary Eklund

Compost/Composition, Frances E. Dolan

Richard Carew and the Matters of the Littoral, Tamsin Badcoe

Visions of Soil and Body Management: The Almanac in Richard II, Bonnie Lander Johnson

Unsoiled Soil and "Fleshly Slime": Representations of Reproduction in Spenser's Legend of Chastity, Lindsay Ann Reid

Groping Golgotha: Soil Improvement in the Towneley and Chesters Shepherds' Plays, Rob Wakeman

Winstanley and Postrevolutionary Soil, Keith M. Botelho

Fertility versus Firepower: Shakespeare's Contested Soil Ecologies, Randal Martin

Wetlands Reclamation and the Fate of the Local in Seventeenth Century England, Hillary Eklund

Manuring Eden: Biological Conversions in Paradise Lost, David B. Goldstein

Afterword, O'Dair

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