Abstract This essay both presents educators with an overview of ecocritical approaches to Renaissance literature, as well as suggests ways they may be brought into the classroom. In particular, it provides a strategy for introducing students to the somewhat startling revelation that...

Rachel Polonsky. English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance. Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xii, 249 pp. Introduction. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $69.95, cloth. The Russian Symbolists are often described as having been in reaction against the "positivist" intellectual...

In the following essay—a version of which was originally presented at Oxford University and the University of Chicago in 1988—Greenblatt examines descrip tions by several explorers of European interactions with Native Americans, and discusses the European approach to interpreting the gestures and signs of an alien culture.

In the following essay, Jones examines the opposing idealized and terrifying visions of the New World that characterized Renaissance thought.

In the following essay, Elliott considers the impact of the New World on European thought during the Renaissance, and suggests that "tradition, experience, and expectation were the determinants of vision. "