Georgic Literature And The Environment
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Georgic Literature And The Environment
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Author : Sue Edney
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-11-18
Georgic Literature And The Environment written by Sue Edney and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-18 with Fiction categories.
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.
American Georgics
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Author : Timothy Sweet
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2013-04-19
American Georgics written by Timothy Sweet and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American georgic. Offering a fresh approach to ecocritical and environmentally-oriented literary studies, Sweet traces the history of the American georgic from its origins in late sixteenth-century English literature promoting the colonization of the Americas through the mid-nineteenth century, ending with George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature (1864), the foundational text in the conservationist movement.
Wild Romanticism
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Author : Markus Poetzsch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-03-30
Wild Romanticism written by Markus Poetzsch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve scholars, who examine representations of wildness in canonical texts such as Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, "Kubla Khan," "Expostulation and Reply," and Childe Harold ́s Pilgrimage, as well as lesser-known works by Radcliffe, Clare, Hölderlin, P.B. Shelley, and Hogg. Celebrating the wild provided Romantic-period authors with a way of thinking about nature that resists instrumentalization and anthropocentricism, but writing about wilderness also engaged them in debates about the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories, about gender and the cultivation of independence as natural, and about the ability of natural forces to resist categorical or literal enclosure. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Romanticism, environmental literature, environmental history, and the environmental humanities more broadly.
Ecocriticism And The Sense Of Place
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Author : Lenka Filipova
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-08-29
Ecocriticism And The Sense Of Place written by Lenka Filipova and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The book is an investigation into the ways in which ideas of place are negotiated, contested and refigured in environmental writing at the turn of the twenty-first century. It focuses on the notion of place as a way of interrogating the socio-political and environmental pressures that have been seen as negatively affecting our environments since the advent of modernity, as well as the solutions that have been given as an antidote to those pressures. Examining a selection of literary representations of place from across the globe, the book illuminates the multilayered and polyvocal ways in which literary works render local and global ecological relations of places. In this way, it problematises more traditional environmentalism and its somewhat essentialised idea of place by intersecting the largely Western discourse of environmental studies with postcolonial and Indigenous studies, thus considering the ways in which forms of emplacement can occur within displacement and dispossession, especially within societies that are dealing with the legacies of colonialism, neocolonial exploitation or international pressure to conform. As such, the work foregrounds the singular processes in which different local/global communities recognise themselves in their diverse approaches to the environment, and gestures towards an environmental politics that is based on an epistemology of contact, connection and difference, and as one, moreover, that recognises its own epistemological limits. This book will appeal to researchers working in the fields of environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, Indigenous studies and comparative literature.
The Cambridge Companion To Literature And The Environment
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Author : Louise Westling
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014
The Cambridge Companion To Literature And The Environment written by Louise Westling and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Literary Criticism categories.
This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism.
Decolonising Pastoral
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Author : Thomas Bristow
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-03-31
Decolonising Pastoral written by Thomas Bristow and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music. Combining the practices of literary criticism and creative writing, Decolonising Pastoral develops a new series of tools for the project of the environmental humanities. With an emphasis on subjectivity and experience, essays and fictocriticism are woven with scholarship and stories to create a fresh critical framework. Six chapters focus on laying out a new synthetic methodology, taking readers on a journey across literary genres, forms and modes, to explore nature both as an organic totality that encompasses mind and matter, and as a source of cultural expression and production. Beginning with an introduction to biosemiotics, the text progresses onto the blue humanities, synthetic criticism and metrics for decolonising pastoral, before uniting the threads together. It discusses works from diverse writers such as Thea Astley, Judith Wright, Ted Banfield, Xavier Herbert, Alexis Wright, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, W.H. Auden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Milton and William Shakespeare. This ambitious and experimental methodology, developing where creative writing and literary criticism meet, will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students interested in literature, ecology, environmental studies and language.
The Cambridge Companion To Australian Poetry
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Author : Ann Vickery
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-30
The Cambridge Companion To Australian Poetry written by Ann Vickery and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume investigates Australian poetry's centrality to debates around colonialism, nationalism, diversity, embodiment, local-global relations, and the environment.
Artful Experiments
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Author : Philipp Erchinger
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-30
Artful Experiments written by Philipp Erchinger and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them
The Unnatural Trade
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Author : Brycchan Carey
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2024-08-27
The Unnatural Trade written by Brycchan Carey and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-27 with History categories.
A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial slavery as unnatural, a “dread perversion” of nature? Focusing on slavery in the Americas, and the Caribbean in particular, alongside travelers’ accounts of West Africa, Brycchan Carey shows that before the mid-eighteenth century, natural histories were a primary source of information about slavery for British and colonial readers. These natural histories were often ambivalent toward slavery, but they increasingly adopted a proslavery stance to accommodate the needs of planters by representing slavery as a “natural” phenomenon. From the mid-eighteenth century, abolitionists adapted the natural history form to their own writings, and many naturalists became associated with the antislavery movement. Carey draws on descriptions of slavery and the slave trade created by naturalists and other travelers with an interest in natural history, including Richard Ligon, Hans Sloane, Griffith Hughes, Samuel Martin, and James Grainger. These environmental writings were used by abolitionists such as Anthony Benezet, James Ramsay, Thomas Clarkson, and Olaudah Equiano to build a compelling case that slavery was unnatural, a case that was popularized by abolitionist poets such as Thomas Day, Edward Rushton, Hannah More, and William Cowper.
Georgic Modernity And British Romanticism
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Author : Kevis Goodman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-29
Georgic Modernity And British Romanticism written by Kevis Goodman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
Goodman traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.