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Hi Brian Try John Goodridge Rural Life in Eighteenth Century Poetry (Cambridge 1995) Best, lizzie ---------------------------------------- > From: rpickard@uvic.ca > Subject: Re: [asle] work on the Georgic? > Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:27:25 -0700 > To: asle@interversity.org > > 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 >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> Report list problems to listmom@interversity.org >>> >> >> >> -- >> “For somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life >> and the >> great work. Help me, in saying it, to understand it.” >> -Rainer Maria Rilke >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe-> >> http://interversity.org/lists/asle/subscribe.html > > --------------------------------------------------- > Archives-> > http://interversity.org/lists/asle/archives.html _________________________________________________________________ Stay up to date on your PC, the Web, and your mobile phone with Windows Live. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/msnnkwxp1020093185mrt/direct/01/
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