Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

223. Literature and the Environment

1:45–3:00 p.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-Century English Literature

Presiding: Rachel J. Trubowitz, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

1. “England’s First Levellers and Diggers,” Ken Hiltner, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

2. “Margaret Cavendish as ‘Giant Cucumber’: The Poetics of Nature,” Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Univ. of Oxford, Saint Edmund Hall

3. “Seventeenth-Century Epistemology and the Birth Pangs of Modern Environmentalism,” Robert N. Watson, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

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