Georgic Literature and the Environment (eBook, PDF)

Working Land, Reworking Genre
Redaktion: Edney, Sue; Somervell, Tess

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000779103
• Artikelnr.: 65907185

Autorenporträt

Sue Edney is a lecturer in English at Bristol University, UK, the Reviews Editor for Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and the ecocriticism representative on the steering committee of the International Ecolinguistics Association. Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK, and previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

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