Re: work on the Georgic?

["Timothy Morton" <tbmorton@ucdavis.edu>]

Gary Harrison's book Wordsworth's vagrant muse might be good. 

So might Kevis Goodman's Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism. 

Yours, Tim



> 
> 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
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