Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 387 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009019507
,
9781316519875
,
9781009011297
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Dec 2022)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316519875
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781316519875
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781009019507
DOI:
10.1017/9781009019507
