Jennifer Munroe
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, English, Faculty Member
- Early Modern Literature, Early Modern Women Writers, Early Modern Material Culture, Early Modern Science and Philosophy, Early Modern London, Early Modern economic and social history, and 6 moreHistory of Science, 17th Century and Early Modern, English Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, Ecofeminism, and Ecocriticismedit
This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social formation and action. Its twenty-one chapters provide diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and... more
This book is for teachers who want to heighten the intellectual impact of their courses by using their classrooms as a creative space for social formation and action. Its twenty-one chapters provide diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices. They model ways of mobilizing justice with early modern texts and claim the intellectual benefits of integrating social justice into courses. The book reconceives the relationship between students and Renaissance literature in ways that enable them – and us – to move from classroom discussions to real-life applications.
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This engaging collection of essays comes with its own review in the shape of an astute Afterword, which is also a Post-script, by Karen Raber. In it, Raber neatly uses the paradoxical position of w...
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Che Early Modem Englishwoma iRser-" Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Part 3 Volume 1 Advice for Women, 1550-17j PW K? ./SfciL i * 1 ML / \> iilĞ' Selected and Sntroduccti by Genera! i7.ditors ^ip^T^iO>... more
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The formal garden in England in the early sixteenth century was largely the domain of the nobility and aristocracy. However, socio-economic changes during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century made it possible for men and women of... more
The formal garden in England in the early sixteenth century was largely the domain of the nobility and aristocracy. However, socio-economic changes during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century made it possible for men and women of the middling sort in particular to afford to ...
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Few teachers would deny that a working familiarity with and appreciation of the sonnet can be invaluable assets for students studying Renaissance English literature. This is not simply because of the “little song&#x27;s” ubiq-uity as... more
Few teachers would deny that a working familiarity with and appreciation of the sonnet can be invaluable assets for students studying Renaissance English literature. This is not simply because of the “little song&#x27;s” ubiq-uity as both mode and theme in the work of canonized figures ...
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Jennifer Munroe UNC Charlotte SAA 2016: " Histories of Sustainability " " Recipes As Alternative Histories of Sustainability " Histories of sustainability have typically situated the origins of our current environmental crises at the... more
Jennifer Munroe UNC Charlotte SAA 2016: " Histories of Sustainability " " Recipes As Alternative Histories of Sustainability " Histories of sustainability have typically situated the origins of our current environmental crises at the advent of industrialism—the dawn of the Anthropocene. Such histories, located as far back as perhaps the seventeenth century in England (as Joseph Caradonna does, for instance, with John Evelyn's Sylva) 1 locate in the past a moment when the world was different, implying at least that things were before that moment otherwise, as if their very articulation might help to remediate our current ecological crises derived from human-induced forms of destruction: air pollution, deforestation, and others. All of these histories, that is, and for obvious and very good reasons, take as their concern large-scale practices especially rooted in the advent of industrialism, moments of rupture when human practices overreach. To situate a history of sustainability at the advent of the Anthropocene also illustrates this, though: by focusing on large-scale, industrial practices, we also foreground a version of history inscribed by dominant, white, male capitalist interests and writ large onto a seemingly passive nonhuman landscape. Situating such histories in this way, let alone chronicling a history of " sustainability " in the first place, proves difficult, even inherently problematic, for a number of reasons. To ask what is the history of sustainability implicitly suggests that at some point in the past we have lived in a way we might now call " sustainable " and that we may want to do so (and are at the risk of not doing so) in the future—a romanticized sensibility about the relationship between humans and nonhumans in