"As the ‘hydrological turn’ of literary and cultural studies mixes with traditional green environmentalism and less familiar materialist discourses, early modern studies is entering new waters. With special attention to non-oceanic spaces and non-canonical texts, Lowell Duckert's brilliant and imaginative study makes the case for engaged historicist ecocriticism. In our Anthropocene age of ecological anxieties and catastrophes, Duckert contributes a vision of elemental co-composing that the critical conversation deeply needs."-Steve Mentz, author of Shipwreck Modernity"A fascinating and creative book tasked with bridging early modernity and today’s global ecological crises in a sound, ethical, and philosophically responsible way." -Renaissance Quarterly