Jennifer A Munroe

[(Making Gardens of Their Own: Gardening Manuals by and for Women, 1500-1750)] [Author: Jennifer Munroe] published on (February, 2008)

During the period 1500-1750, a general shift in gardening practice took place, from which emerged three distinct types of gardens: (traditional) subsistence or kitchen gardens, aesthetic gardens, and gendered aesthetic gardens. The gardening and husbandry manuals published during the period, typifie...

Making Gardens of Their Own: Advice for Women, 1550-1750 (Early Modern Englishwoman: a Facsimile Library of Essential Works)

During the period 1500-1750, a general shift in gardening practice took place, from which emerged three distinct types of gardens: (traditional) subsistence or kitchen gardens, aesthetic gardens, and gendered aesthetic gardens. The gardening and husbandry manuals published during the period, typifie...

Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World)

Radical reconfigurations in gardening practice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England altered the social function of the garden, offering men and women new opportunities for social mobility. While recent work has addressed how middle class men used the garden to attain this mobility, the gend...

Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment)

By focusing on various forms of “dialogue,” these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening in order to illuminate ways that early modern English women interacted with their natural surroundings. The emphasis on dialogue brings ecocritics, feminists, and ecofeminists into con...

Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts: A Field Guide to Reading and Teaching

Ecocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly 'green'; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use guide...

Making Gardens of Their Own: Advice for Women, 1550-1750