Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England

Eleven essays invite us to rethink not only what constitutes an environment but also where the environment ends and selfhood begins. The essays examine the dynamic and varied mediations early modern writers posited between microcosm and macrocosm, ranging from discourses on the ecology of passions to striking examples of distributed cognition.

DAVID J. BAKER Professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa KATHARINE A. CRAIK Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK MARY THOMAS CRANE Professor of English at Boston College, USA JIM EGAN Associate Professor of English at Brown University, USA ELIZABETH D. HARVEY Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada STEVEN MULLANEY Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Michigan, USA GAIL KERN PASTER Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, USA TANYA POLLARD Assistant Professor of English, Montclair State University, USA KATHERINE ROWE Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College, USA JOHN SUTTON Head of the Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia JULIAN YATES Associate Professor of English and Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware, USA