Virgil's map : geography, empire, and the Georgics /

Virgil's Georgics depicts the world and its peoples in great detail, but this geographical interest has received little detailed scholarly attention. Hundreds of years later, readers in the British empire used the poem to reflect upon their travels in acts of imagination no less political than...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kerrigan, Charlie (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2020]
Series:	Bloomsbury studies in classical reception.
Subjects:	Virgil. > Georgica. Virgil > Appreciation > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Virgil > Appreciation > Great Britain > History > 20th century. Imperialism in literature. Power (Social sciences) in literature. Geography in literature. Rome > In literature.

Table of Contents:

Rome and the Roman empire, 29 BCE. The world and its peoples
Provinicializing Rome
Civil war
'All Italy'
Britain and the Britisn empire, c. 1840-1930. An aesthetic trend
The Georgics abroad
'Happy farmers'
The Georgics at home
Conclusion : towards a decolonizing pedagogy of Latin literature.