Cates Baldridge

Broschiertes Buch

Plowswords

Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee

Beschreibung

"Examining important works of English literature through the lens of anthropology's revised narrative of the Agricultural Trap, considers whether central aspects of The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, and the novels of Coetzee can be reinterpreted as expressions of anxiety about the supposedly obvious superiority of farming and tilling over foraging and gathering"--

Autor

Cates Baldridge is Philip Battell and Sarah F. Cowles Stewart Professor of English at Middlebury College and the author of The Dialogics of Dissent in the English Novel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780813951638
• ISBN-10: 0813951631
• Artikelnr.: 71660887