Recent developments in renaissance and early modern ecocriticism, since surveys by Karen Raber and Sharon O’Dair, have made the field discursive. Some critics maintain that ecocriticism, ecostudies or environmental studies must be self-consciously activist and presentist. Others practise a more historicist approach, which is only implicitly activist, if at all. This article considers the recent environmental criticism of renaissance literature and Shakespeare – in its place on the spectrum of presentism and historicism – and argues that the field’s discursiveness is a positive development which will lead to a growth of ecocritical work in the period. Recent relevant work in environmental history is introduced, and a case made for a greater engagement with it in literary ecocriticism.

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环境复兴研究

自Karen Raber和Sharon O'Dair进行调查以来，文艺复兴时期和早期现代生态批评的最新发展已使该领域变得令人困惑。一些批评家坚持认为，生态批评，生态研究或环境研究必须是自觉的积极主义者和表现主义者。其他人则采用一种更具历史主义色彩的方法，如果有的话，这只是暗中的激进主义者。本文考虑了近来对文艺复兴时期文学和莎士比亚的环境批评（取代了当下的表现主义和历史主义），并认为该领域的话语性是一种积极的发展，将导致该时期生态批判性工作的增长。介绍了环境历史方面的最新相关工作，并提出了将其更多地纳入文学生态批评的理由。