Georgic literature and the environment : working land, reworking genre / edited by Sue Edney and Tess Somervell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edney, Sue, editor.

Somervell, Tess, editor.

Series:

Routledge environmental literature, culture and media.

Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature in literature.

Agriculture in literature.

Ecoliterature--History and criticism.

Ecoliterature.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"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 writers throughout modern and early modern English-language literary history as a way of thinking about humans' relationships with the environment. The book is divided into three sections: Defining Georgic, Managing Nature and Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene. It centres the georgic genre in the ecocritical conversation, giving it equal prominence with pastoral, elegy, and lyric as an example of 'nature writing' that can speak to urgent environmental questions throughout literary history and up to the present day. It provides an overview of the myriad ways georgic has been reworked in order to address human relationships with the environment, through focused case studies on individual texts and authors, including James Grainger, William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Judith Wright and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. This 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-324130-1

1-003-24130-1

1-000-77918-1

1-000-77910-6

9781003241300

OCLC:

1344494960