TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobs,Nicole A.
TI  - Bees in early modern transatlantic literature: sovereign colony 
T2  - Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
SN  - 9781000264111
AV  - PR438.A55 J33 2021eb
U1  - 820.9/362579909032 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - English literature
KW  - 17th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 18th century
KW  - American literature
KW  - Bees in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - England
KW  - United States
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Abusing the Hive -- 1 Bee Time: Shakespeare -- 2 Hive Split: The New World Colonists -- 3 Stingless and Stinging: Native American Kinship -- 4 Honey Production and Consumption: Milton -- 5 Worker Bee Sacrifice: Pulter -- Conclusion: The Transatlantic Grumbling Hive -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - This book examines apian imagery--bees, drones, honey, and the hive--in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literary and oral traditions. In England and the New World colonies during a critical period of expansion, the metaphor of this communal society faced unprecedented challenges even as it came to emblematize the process of colonization itself. The beehive connected the labor of those marginalized by race, class, gender, or species to larger considerations of sovereignty. This study examines the works of William Shakespeare; Francis Daniel Pastorius; Hopi, Wyandotte, and Pocasset cultures; John Milton; Hester Pulter; and Bernard Mandeville. Its contribution lies in its exploration of the simultaneously recuperative and destructive narratives that place the bee at the nexus of the human, the animal, and the environment. The book argues that bees play a central representational and physical role in shaping conflicts over hierarchies of the early transatlantic world
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003122371
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -