{"product_id":"environment-society-and-the-compleat-angler-paperback","title":"Environment, Society, and the Compleat Angler - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarjorie Swann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1653, \u003ci\u003eThe Compleat Angler\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most influential environmental texts ever written. Addressing a politically and religiously polarized nation devastated by warfare, disease, ecological degradation, and climate change, Izaak Walton's famous fishing treatise stages a radical thought experiment: how might humanity's enhanced relationship with the natural world generate a new kind of sustaining--and sustainable--social order beyond the traditional boundaries of the church, the state, and the biological family?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging the current scholarly consensus that reads Walton's how-to manual as a conservative polemic camouflaged by fishlore, Marjorie Swann examines this richly complicated portrayal of the natural world through an ecocritical lens and explores other neglected aspects of Walton's writings, including his depictions of social hierarchy, gender, and sexuality. In the process, Swann analyzes a host of noncanonical environmental texts and provides a groundbreaking reappraisal of Charles Cotton's \"Part II\" of \u003ci\u003eThe Compleat Angler\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThis study extends the hydrological turn in early modern ecocriticism and demonstrates how, as a genre, angling manuals provide new insights into the environmental, cultural, social, and literary history of early modern England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its place alongside landmark works of ecocriticism such as \u003ci\u003eGreen \u003c\/i\u003eS\u003ci\u003ehakespeare\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMilton and Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ethis fresh and timely reassessment of \u003ci\u003eThe Compleat Angler \u003c\/i\u003erightly ranks Izaak Walton among the most important environmental writers of the early modern era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMarjorie Swann\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Ottawa University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eCuriosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of a new critical edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Compleat Angler\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press, 2014).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 270\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329654513971,"sku":"9780271095202","price":78.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/PKGadF3eCv9780271095202.webp?v=1778171664","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/environment-society-and-the-compleat-angler-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}