Dr. Elizabeth D. Gruber is a Professor of English at Lock Haven University in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Teaching and research interests include early modern literature, Shakespearean adaptation, and ecocriticism and theory. Recent publications focus on the productive conjunctions of ecocriticism and early modern studies. Several articles as well as an earlier monograph Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking Cosmopolis (Routledge, 2017), advance ecocritical readings of diverse early modern texts. The goal of the present volume, The Eco-Self in Early Modern English Literature, is to track the birth of a new subset of the human, bringing out its eco-psychological implications and tracking their persisting importance.

Introduction: Ourselves Our Renaissance. The Verdancy of Critical Practice, Chapter 1: The Verdant Imagination in Shakespeare's Sonnets, Chapter 2: The Intermediating Self in Doctor Faustus, Chapter 3: Resisting Self-Erasure in Antony and Cleopatra, Chapter 4: Wrestling with the Eco-Self in The Duchess of Malfi, Chapter 5: Ecology and Selfhood in The Blazing World, Bibliography, Index.