A History of English Georgic Writing

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-316-51987-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

The interconnected themes of land and labour were a common recourse for English literary writers between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, and in the twenty-first they have become pressing again in the work of nature writers, environmentalists, poets, novelists and dramatists. Written by a team of sixteen subject specialists, this volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism. Providing an overview of the current scholarship in georgic literature and criticism, this collection argues that the work of people and animals in farming communities, and the land as it is understood through that work, has provided writers in English with one of their most complex and enduring themes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bullard, Paddy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Bullard, Paddy
Paddy Bullard is Associate Professor of English Literature and Book History at the University of Reading. He is the author of Edmund Burke and the Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire (2019). With James McLaverty he co-edited Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and, with Alexis Tadié, Ancients and Moderns in Europe (2016). With Timothy Michael he is co-editor of volume 15 (Later Prose) of The Oxford Edition of the Works of Alexander Pope.