Title A history of English georgic writing / edited by Paddy Bullard, University of Reading

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- A Note on National Designations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: A Survey of English Georgic Writing, 1521-2021 -- Three Modern Georgic Snapshots -- The Sixteenth Century -- The Seventeenth Century -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Romantic and Victorian Periods -- The Twentieth Century -- The Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Part I Turnings -- Chapter 1 Hesiod, Virgil and the Ambitions of Georgic -- Greek Georgic Writing -- The Works and Days of Hesiod -- The Roman Georgic Tradition The Georgics of Virgil -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Turning, Flying: The Rural Year -- Labours -- Hundreds of Points -- Pauses, Pivots, Culminations -- Lucky Days -- Spring to Spring -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Farm Diaries, 1770-1990 -- What Is a Farm Diary? -- Farm Diaries, Work and Landscape -- Work -- Landscape -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Twentieth-Century Georgic and Agricultural Technology -- Textbooks and Surveys -- Memoirs and Novels Written before the Second World War -- Wartime and Post-War Georgic -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part II Times -- Chapter 5 Jacobean Georgic Making Sense of Renaissance Georgic -- The Georgic Debates of Jacobean England -- Jacobean Georgics: Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton -- Notes -- Chapter 6 'Varieties too Regular for Chance': John Evelyn, John Dryden and Their Contemporaries -- Marvell's Militarized Georgics -- Evelyn, Cowley and Early Restoration Georgic -- Is Paradise Georgic? -- Translating the Georgics at the Turn of the Century -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Enlightenment, Improvement and Experimentation: Jethro Tull and His Contemporaries -- 'Answerable Style' -- 'Labor Omnia Vicit': Georgic Labour -- Miscellaneity and Georgic Variety The Muse of Sage Experience: From Experience to Experiment -- Feeling Georgic: The Pleasures of Agriculture -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Georgic, Romanticism and Complaint: John Clare and His Contemporaries -- The Roots of Rural Complaint -- Complaint in the Romantic Formal Georgic -- Beachy Head and Georgic Complaint -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Rural Labour in an Age of Industry: William Cobbett and Some Contemporaries -- Notes -- Chapter 10 Labour Isn't Working: The (F)ailing Georgics of Hardy's Wessex Novels -- High-Pressure Agriculture -- What Makes a Man of Character? -- Reading the Leaves The Demise of Autumn's Very Brother -- A Gentle Conjuror's Touch? -- Arboreal Anxieties -- Notes -- Chapter 11 Twentieth-Century Georgic: V. Sackville-West -- Figures of Virgilian Genres -- Vernacular Georgic -- Farm and Form -- 'Playing the Farmer' -- Native and Foreign -- Languages -- Campaigns of the Imagination -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Rags and Tatters: Hughes, Oswald and Their Contemporaries -- Rags and Tatters -- Weights and Checks -- Clippings and Tags -- Notes -- Part III Territories -- Chapter 13 Low Lands: Fen Georgic -- John Clare and the Fen Sky -- 'The Powte's Complaint' and Fen Flood Summary "A history of English georgic writing--literature focused on working rural lives, landscapes and environments--from 1500 to the present"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Virgil. Georgica -- Influence SUBJECT Georgica (Virgil) fast Subject English literature -- History and criticism. Farm life in literature. Agriculture in literature. Agriculture in literature English literature Farm life in literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Essays Essays. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781009019507 1009019503 9781009022668 (PDF ebook) 1009022660 (PDF ebook)

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