History of English Georgic Writing (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Bullard, Paddy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A history of English georgic writing - literature focused on working rural lives, landscapes and environments - from 1500 to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009022668
• Artikelnr.: 70913836

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Turnings: 1. Hesiod, virgil, and the ambitions of georgic Philip
Thibodeau; 2. Turning, flying: the rural year Alexandra Harris; 3. Farm
diaries, 1770-1990 Jeremy Burchardt; 4. Twentieth-century georgic and
agricultural technology Paul Brassley; Part II. Times: 5. Jacobean georgic
Andrew McRae; 6. 'Varieties too regular for chance': John Evelyn, John
Dryden, and their contemporaries Melissa Schoenberger; 7. Enlightenment,
improvement and experimentation: Jethro Tull and his contemporaries Frans
De Bruyn; 8. Georgic, romanticism and complaint: John Clare and his
contemporaries Tess Somervell; 9. Rural labour in an age of industry:
William Cobbett and some contemporaries James Grande; 10. Labour isn't
working: the (f)ailing georgics of Hardy's wessex novels Andrew Radford;
11. Twentieth-century georgic: Vita sackville-west Juan Christian Pellicer;
12. Rags and tatters: Hughes, Oswald and their contemporaries Jack Thacker;
Part III. Territories: 13. Low lands: Fen georgic Paddy Bullard; 14.
Between the georgic and the pastoral: the British weald Suzanne Joinson;
15. American georgic Sarah Wagner-McCoy; 16. Environment and empire:
Georgic through time Charlie Kerrigan.