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Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre book cover

1st Edition

Georgic Literature and the Environment Working Land, Reworking Genre

Edited By Sue Edney, Tess Somervell Copyright 2023
268 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

268 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Foreword by David Fairer

Introduction

Sue Edney and Tess Somervell

PART I Defining Georgic

1 What Is Georgic’s Relation to Pastoral?

Terry Gifford

2 How Is Walden Georgic?

Juan Christian Pellicer

3 Middlemarch and the Georgic Novel

Henry Power

PART II Managing Nature

4 Agrilogistics and Pest Control in Early Modern Georgic

Todd Andrew Borlik

5 James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and Naturalists’ Georgic

Brycchan Carey

6 Rural Frances Burney

Barbara Witucki

7 Wordsworth’s Tidal Georgic

Ralph Pite

8 Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’ and the Imperilled Georgic: Questions of Agricultural Permanence

Ethan Mannon

9 Georgic Culture in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native: Participant Observation

Philipp Erchinger

PART III Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene

10 Georgic Hope in Robert Bloomfield and John Clare

Sue Edney

11 Seamus Heaney’s Elegiac and Domestic Georgics

Shun LU

12 The Semi-Georgic Australian Sugarcane Novel

Elizabeth A. Smyth

13 Judith Wright and Virgil’s Third Georgic

Sarah Lawrence

14 Derek Jarman’s Gay Georgic

Greg Garrard

15 Georgic Reversals in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Days and Works

Harriet Tarlo

Afterword

Sue Edney and Tess Somervell

Biography

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.

"The georgic is the genre of the Anthropocene. More than pastoral, georgic means a working countryside, humans embedded with nonhumans, sustaining without exploiting. These essays pose critical ecological questions arising from centuries of writing from Hesiod and Virgil to John Clare, Derek Jarman and Isabella Tree. Now more than ever we need the georgic to think with."

Donna Landry, Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK

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