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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Swann, Marjorie

Titel

Environment, society, and The compleat angler

Ist Teil von

• Cultural inquiries in English literature, 1400-1700

Ort / Verlag

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The environmental imagination of Izaak Walton -- Creating the Brotherhood of the Angle -- The great chain of eating -- Charles Cotton and the properties of angling -- Epilogue : haunted by Walton.
• "Analyzes the environmental and social complexities of Izaak Walton's famous fishing treatise The Compleat Angler. Examines the complex portrayal of the natural world through an ecocritical lens and explores other neglected aspects of Walton's writings, including his depictions of social hierarchy, gender, and sexuality"--