The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton

· Tantor Media Inc · Berättare: Mitch Crawford
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Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental Unconscious addresses these questions as it provides an innovative and theoretical account of environmental loss focused on the counterintuitive forms of enjoyment that early modern poetry and psychoanalysis jointly theorize. Steven Swarbrick urges literary critics and environmental scholars to rethink notions of entanglement, animacy, and consciousness raising. Through close readings of Edmund Spenser, Walter Ralegh, Andrew Marvell, and John Milton, he reveals a world of matter that is not merely hyperconnected, as in the new materialism, but porous and off-kilter. And yet the loss these poets reveal is central to the enjoyment their works offer-and that nature offers. The Environmental Unconscious offers a provocative challenge to ecocriticism that a new theory of disconnection is desperately needed. Tracing the propulsive force of the environmental unconscious from the early modern period to Freudian and post-Freudian theories of desire, Swarbrick not only puts nature on the couch in this book but also renews the psychoanalytic toolkit in light of environmental collapse.

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Steven Swarbrick is assistant professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

A high school teacher for twenty years in history, economics, fine arts, and computer science, Mitch Crawford now works as an actor, model, and voice-over artist. His sincere, trustworthy voice resonates well with children's literature, first- and third-person POV fiction, nonfiction, biography/memoir, and self-help books.

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