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American georgics [[electronic resource] ] : economy and environment in early American literature / / Timothy Sweet



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Autore: Sweet Timothy <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: American georgics [[electronic resource] ] : economy and environment in early American literature / / Timothy Sweet Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/355
Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism
Pastoral literature, American - History and criticism
Didactic literature, American - History and criticism
Economics and literature - United States - History
Agriculture in literature
Economics in literature
Nature in literature
Soggetto non controllato: American History
American Studies
Cultural Studies
Literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: American georgics  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-0318-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787528303321
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