Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre

ISBN-13: 9781032148243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Edney, Sue

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This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. It is a much-needed volume for literary critics, academics and students engaged in ecocritical studies, environmental humanities and literature, addressing a significantly overlooked environmental literary genre.

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Foreword by David Fairer Introduction PART I Defining Georgic 1. What Is Georgic’s Relation to Pastoral? 2. How Is Walden Georgic? 3. Middlemarch and the Georgic Novel PART II Managing Nature 4. Agrilogistics and Pest Control in Early Modern Georgic 5. James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and Naturalists’ Georgic 6. Rural Frances Burney 7. Wordsworth’s Tidal Georgic 8. Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’ and the Imperilled Georgic: Questions of Agricultural Permanence 9. Georgic Culture in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native: Participant Observation PART III Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene 10. Georgic Hope in Robert Bloomfield and John Clare 11. Seamus Heaney’s Elegiac and Domestic Georgics 12. The Semi-Georgic Australian Sugarcane Novel 13. Judith Wright and Virgil’s Third Georgic 14. Derek Jarman’s Gay Georgic 15. Georgic Reversals in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Days and Works Afterword