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Georgic literature and the environment : working land, reworking genre /

This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. Together its chapters demonstrate that georgic, a genre based primarily on two classical poems about farming, Virgil's Georgics and Hesiod's Works and Days, has been reworked by w...

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Other Authors:	Edney, Sue (Editor), Somervell, Tess (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, [2023].
Series:	Routledge environmental literature, culture and media.
Subjects:	Nature in literature. Agriculture in literature. Ecoliterature > History and criticism. Ecocriticism.

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