Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Reincarnating Pythagoras: anima mundi and Renaissance gaia theory
  • Mute timber: environmental stichomythia in The old Arcadia and Poly-Olbion
  • The reformation and the disenchantment of nature
  • "Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?": environmental ethics and the good life in Renaissance pastoral
  • Rethinking dominion: pastoral and the republic of nature
  • Conclusion: ecocriticism as a version of the pastoral.