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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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2023].
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| 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.