LEADER 03959nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910812187003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0318-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203189 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418280 035 $a(EBL)3442154 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000980674 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11533215 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980674 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10958345 035 $a(PQKB)10840933 035 $a(OCoLC)859161010 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26839 035 $a(DE-B1597)449214 035 $a(OCoLC)979744334 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203189 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442154 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748580 035 $a(OCoLC)929158111 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442154 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418280 100 $a20010523d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican georgics $eeconomy and environment in early American literature /$fTimothy Sweet 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9780712236378 311 $a0-8122-3637-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Economy And Environment In Sixteenth-Century Promotional Literature --$tChapter 2. "God Sells Us All Things For Our Labour" John Smith's Generall Historie --$tChapter 3. "Wonder-Working Providence" Of The Market --$tChapter 4. "Admirable Economy": Robert Beverley's Calculus Of Compensation --$tChapter 5 Ideologies Of Farming: Crèvecoeur, Je.Fforson, Rush, And Brown --$tChapter 6. Cherokee "Improvements" And The Removal Debate --$tChapter 7 "Co-Workers With Nature": Cooper, Thoreau, And Marsh --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnvironmental literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPastoral literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDidactic literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEconomics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aAgriculture in literature 606 $aEconomics in literature 606 $aNature in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnvironmental literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPastoral literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDidactic literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEconomics and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aAgriculture in literature. 615 0$aEconomics in literature. 615 0$aNature in literature. 676 $a810.9/355 700 $aSweet$b Timothy$f1960-$01633856 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812187003321 996 $aAmerican georgics$93973826 997 $aUNINA