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.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is georgic's relation to pastoral? / Terry Gifford
  • How is Walden georgic? / Juan Christian Pellicer
  • Middlemarch and the georgic novel / Henry Power
  • Agrilogistics and pest control in early modern georgic / Todd Borlik
  • James Grainger's The sugar-cane and Naturalists' georgic / Brycchan Carey
  • Rural Frances Burney / Barbara Witucki
  • Wordsworth's tidal georgic / Ralph Pite
  • Wordsworth's 'Michael' and the imperilled georgic : questions of agricultural permanence / Ethan Mannon
  • Georgic culture in Thomas Hardy's The return of the native : participant observation / Philipp Erchinger
  • Georgic hope in Robert Bloomfield and John Clare / Sue Edney
  • Seamus Heaney's elegiac and domestic georgics / Shun Lu
  • The semi-georgic Australian sugarcane novel / Elizabeth A. Smyth
  • Judith Wright and Virgil's third georgic / Sarah Lawrence
  • Derek Jarman's gay georgic / Greg Garrard
  • Georgic reversals in Rachel Blau DuPlessis's Days and works / Harriet Tarlo.