Speaking for nature : women and ecologies of early modern England / Sylvia Bowerbank.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Radical nostalgia in Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomeries Urania -- Nature as Trickster : the philosophical laughter of Margaret Cavendish -- The cultivation of good nature -- Millennial bodies : giving birth to new nature in the late seventeenth century -- If animals could talk : ecological dialogues for children -- Defending local places : Anna Seward as environmental writer -- "The bones of the world" : Mary Wollstonecraft as ecofeminist critic.

Includes bibliographical references and index.