Bees in Early Modern Transatlantic Literature

Sovereign Colony

Nicole A. Jacobs (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-64157-3 (ISBN)

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This book examines bees in the early modern English and American literary and cultural traditions, exploring the works of Shakespeare, Pastorius, Hopi and Wyandotte cultures, Milton, and Pulter. It argues that the hive plays a central role in shaping conflicts over labor and sovereignty in the early transatlantic world.

This book examines apian imagery—bees, drones, honey, and the hive—in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it came to emblematize the process of colonization itself. The beehive connected the labor of those marginalized by race, class, gender, or species to larger considerations of sovereignty. This study examines the works of William Shakespeare; Francis Daniel Pastorius; Hopi, Wyandotte, and Pocasset cultures; John Milton; Hester Pulter; and Bernard Mandeville. Its contribution lies in its exploration of the simultaneously recuperative and destructive narratives that place the bee at the nexus of the human, the animal, and the environment. The book argues that bees play a central representational and physical role in shaping conflicts over hierarchies of the early transatlantic world.

Nicole A. Jacobs teaches in Women’s, Gender & Queer Studies and English at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Her articles have appeared in Studies in Philology, Criticism, The Shakespearean International Yearbook, Appositions, and the Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Animals.

Introduction: Abusing the Hive

1 Bee Time: Shakespeare

2 Hive Split: The New World Colonists

3 Stingless and Stinging: Native American Kinship

4 Honey Production and Consumption: Milton

5 Worker Bee Sacrifice: Pulter

Conclusion: The Transatlantic Grumbling Hive

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2021
Reihe/Serie	Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-367-64157-7 / 0367641577
ISBN-13	978-0-367-64157-3 / 9780367641573
Zustand	Neuware