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DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA Jeffrey S. Theis Writing the Forest in Early Modern England A Sylvan Pastoral Nation Copyright © 2009 Duquesne University Press All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS 600 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15282 No part of this book may be used or reproduced, in any manner or form whatsoever, without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of short quotations in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Theis, Jeffrey S. Writing the forest in early modern England : a sylvan pastoral nation / Jeffrey S. Theis. p. cm. — (Medieval & Renaissance literary studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: “An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify ‘sylvan pastoral’ as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism”—Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-8207-0423-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. English literature—Early modern, 1500–1700—History and criticism. 2. Pastoral literature, English—History and criticism. 3. Ecology in literature. 4.Forestsinliterature.5.Environmentalisminliterature.6.Environmentalism— England—History—16th century. 7. Environmentalism—England—History— 17th century. 8. Ecocriticism. I. Title. PR438.E39T47 2009 820.9’356—dc22 2009046462 A portion of chapter 4 appeared in an earlier form as “The ‘ill-kill’d’ Deer: Poaching and Social Order in The Merry Wives of Windsor,” by Jeffrey Theis, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 43, issue 1, pp. 46–73, copyright © 2001 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Part of chapter 7 revises “‘The purlieus of heaven’: Milton’s Eden as a Pastoral Forest,” in Renaissance Ecology: Imagining Eden in Milton’s England, edited by Ken Hiltner, 229–57 (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2008). First eBook edition, 2011 ISBN 978-0-8207-0505-7 ...