03977nam 2200757Ia 450 991046325170332120200520144314.00-8122-0318-610.9783/9780812203189(CKB)2670000000418280(EBL)3442154(SSID)ssj0000980674(PQKBManifestationID)11533215(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980674(PQKBWorkID)10958345(PQKB)10840933(MiAaPQ)EBC3442154(OCoLC)859161010(MdBmJHUP)muse26839(DE-B1597)449214(OCoLC)979744334(DE-B1597)9780812203189(Au-PeEL)EBL3442154(CaPaEBR)ebr10748580(OCoLC)929158111(EXLCZ)99267000000041828020010523d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican georgics[electronic resource] economy and environment in early American literature /Timothy SweetPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20021 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8122-3637-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Economy And Environment In Sixteenth-Century Promotional Literature -- Chapter 2. "God Sells Us All Things For Our Labour" John Smith's Generall Historie -- Chapter 3. "Wonder-Working Providence" Of The Market -- Chapter 4. "Admirable Economy": Robert Beverley's Calculus Of Compensation -- Chapter 5 Ideologies Of Farming: Crèvecoeur, Je.Fforson, Rush, And Brown -- Chapter 6. Cherokee "Improvements" And The Removal Debate -- Chapter 7 "Co-Workers With Nature": Cooper, Thoreau, And Marsh -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- AcknowledgmentsIn classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with the natural environment, Timothy Sweet identifies a distinct literary mode he calls the American georgic.Offering a fresh approach to ecocritical and environmentally-oriented literary studies, Sweet traces the history of the American georgic from its origins in late sixteenth-century English literature promoting the colonization of the Americas through the mid-nineteenth century, ending with George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature (1864), the foundational text in the conservationist movement.American literatureHistory and criticismEnvironmental literatureHistory and criticismPastoral literature, AmericanHistory and criticismDidactic literature, AmericanHistory and criticismEconomics and literatureUnited StatesHistoryAgriculture in literatureEconomics in literatureNature in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Environmental literatureHistory and criticism.Pastoral literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Didactic literature, AmericanHistory and criticism.Economics and literatureHistory.Agriculture in literature.Economics in literature.Nature in literature.810.9/355Sweet Timothy1960-1039431MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463251703321American georgics2461649UNINA