Jacobs, Nicole A.,
Bees in early modern transatlantic literature : sovereign colony / Nicole A. Jacobs. - 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) - Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
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.
9781000264111 1000264114 1000264173 9781000264142 1000264149 9781003122371 100312237X 9781000264173
10.4324/9781003122371 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--17th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
American literature--History and criticism.--17th century
American literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Bees in literature.
Literature and society--England.
Literature and society--United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
PR438.A55 / J33 2021eb
820.9/362579909032
Bees in early modern transatlantic literature : sovereign colony / Nicole A. Jacobs. - 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages) - Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture .
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
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.
9781000264111 1000264114 1000264173 9781000264142 1000264149 9781003122371 100312237X 9781000264173
10.4324/9781003122371 doi
English literature--History and criticism.--17th century
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
American literature--History and criticism.--17th century
American literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Bees in literature.
Literature and society--England.
Literature and society--United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
PR438.A55 / J33 2021eb
820.9/362579909032