Re: work on the Georgic?

[Richard Pickard <rpickard@uvic.ca>]

I can't really point you toward much, Brian - I haven't dug very  
deeply into this specific area since finishing my dissertation in '98  
("Augustan Ecology," after Bate), which had a couple of chapters on  
links between the British georgic and environmental thinking. There's  
the occasional mention of it, I think in one of Buell's books for  
example, and a recent book on agriculture and literature in American  
addressed the georgic tradition, though I can't find the title this  
morning, but I certainly don't know of a bibliography dedicated to  
the subject.

Three presenters at Wofford had connections to Virgil, though: Fred  
Chappell and Jordan Fisher Smith both mentioned him in their talks,  
and Ginger Strand wrote an article about Virgil and America in The  
Believer in 2006 (http://boughtbooks.blogspot.com/2007/06/virgil-and- 
new-environmental-writing.html).

Richard

Richard Pickard
Department of English
University of Victoria
Clearihue D331
250-721-6636
rpickard@uvic.ca

On 14-Sep-08, at 8:20 AM, Chris wrote:

> Brian,
>
> In Ecocriticism: The New Critical Idiom Greg Garrard discusses the  
> Georgic
> tradition in relationship to the "trope," or underlying metaphor of
> "Dwelling."
>
> -Chris Hall
> > Would anyone be able to point me toward a bibliography of ecocritical
> > writing on the Georgic (fairly traditionally defined -- I'm aware  
> > that
> > lots of people talk about an "American Georgic," etc., but I'm mostly
> > interested in Virgil and his English imitators)?   Many thanks.
> >
> > All best,
> > Brian Glover
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