Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 17-19, 2019

How might ecological metaphors spur our thinking about how it is to feel with other people? What new horizons for social organization might air, animal, and bubbles produce? This panel collects recent scholarship which explores the intellectual potential latent in early modern ecological writing.

Chair: Vin Nardizzi, University of British Columbia

• The "cleerest sweetest ayre": Communities of Song in Mary Wroth's Urania

  Claire Duncan, Independent Scholar

• Samson among the Beasts

  John Yargo, University of Massachusetts Amherst (panel organizer)

• Macbeth's Bubbles

Julian Yates, University of Delaware