{"product_id":"9781452953731","title":"For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecent years have witnessed a surge in early modern ecostudies, many devoted to Shakespearean drama. Yet in this burgeoning discipline, travel writing appears moored in historicization, inorganic subjects are far less prevalent than organic ones, and freshwater sites are hardly visited. \u003ci\u003eFor All Waters\u003c\/i\u003e explores these uncharted wetscapes. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLowell Duckert shows that when playwrights and travel writers such as Sir Walter Raleigh physically interacted with rivers, glaciers, monsoons, and swamps, they composed “hydrographies,” or bodily and textual assemblages of human and nonhuman things that dissolved notions of human autonomy and its singular narrativity. With a playful, punning touch woven deftly into its theoretical rigor,\u003ci\u003e For All Waters \u003c\/i\u003edisputes fantasies of ecological solitude that would keep our selves high and dry and that would try to sustain a political ecology excluding water and the poor. The lives of both humans and waterscapes can be improved simultaneously through direct engagement with wetness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor All Waters\u003c\/i\u003e concludes by investigating waterscapes in peril today—West Virginia’s chemical rivers and Iceland’s vanishing glaciers—and outlining what we can learn from early moderns’ eco-ontological lessons. By taking their soggy and storied matters to heart, and arriving at a greater realization of our shared wetness, we can conceive new directions to take within the hydropolitical crises afflicting us today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157803057392,"sku":"9781452953731","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452953731_p0.jpg?v=1763848047","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452953731","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}