Robert N. Watson
Robert N. Watson is a literary scholar and professor of English known for work on Renaissance literature and Shakespeare, and the author of books such as The Rest Is Silence and Back to Nature. He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Books
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1. Back To Nature
The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance
A study of the late Renaissance that explores how English writers negotiated the idea of nature by juxtaposing pastoral longings and “green” ideals with the material realities of labor, mortality, and environmental exploitation. Through readings of poems and plays, it shows how cultural works both idealize rural life and confront ecological pressures, using the natural world to think through ethics, politics, property, and identity.
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