Autore	Sweet Timothy <1960->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	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 genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8122-0318-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	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 -- Acknowledgments
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463251703321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1997
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	873/.01
Collana	Cambridge companions to literature
Soggetto topico	Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism Agriculture in literature Country life in literature Didactic poetry, Latin - History and criticism Pastoral poetry, Latin - History and criticism
ISBN	1-107-48045-0 1-107-48479-0 1-139-00007-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	; Introduction : "the classic of all Europe" / Charles Martindale -- Virgil in English translation / Colin Burrow -- Modern receptions and their interpretative implications / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Aspects of Virgil's reception in antiquity / R.J. Tarrant -- The Virgil commentary of Servius / Don Fowler -- Virgils, from Dante to Milton / Colin Burrow -- Virgil in art / M.J.H. Liversidge -- Green politics : the Eclogues / Charles Martindale -- Virgilian didaxis : value and meaning in the Georgics / William Batstone -- Virgilian epic / Duncan F. Kennedy -- Closure : the Book of Virgil / Elena Theodorakopoulos -- Poetry and power : Virgil's poetry in contemporary context / R.J. Tarrant -- Rome and its traditions / James E.G. Zetzel -- Virgil and the cosmos : religious and philosophical ideas / Susanna Morton Braund -- The Virgilian intertext / Joseph Farrell -- Virgil's style / James J. O'Hara -- Virgilian narrative : story-telling / Don Fowler -- Virgilian narrative : ecphrasis / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Approaching characterisation in Virgil / Andrew Laird -- Sons and lovers : sexuality and gender in Virgil's poetry / Ellen Oliensis -- Virgil and tragedy / Philip Hardie -- Envoi : the death of Virgil / Fiona Cox.
Record Nr.	UNISA-996205072203316

Autore	Ziser Michael <1973->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	810.9/36
Collana	Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Soggetto topico	American literature - History and criticism Nature in literature Ecology in literature Agriculture in literature Agent (Philosophy) in literature Natural history - United States - Historiography Nature (Aesthetics) Ecocriticism - United States
ISBN	1-139-89035-2 1-107-24110-3 1-107-25073-0 1-107-24741-1 0-511-79416-9 1-107-24990-2 1-107-24824-8 1-107-24907-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Sovereign remedies -- Staple-colony circumspection -- The pomology of Eden -- Beeing in the world -- Walled in and farmed out : pastoral isolation and Georgic collectivities.
Altri titoli varianti	Environmental Practice & Early American Literature
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452474703321

Autore	Carruth Allison
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	810.9/3564
Soggetto topico	Agriculture in literature Food in literature American literature - 20th century - History and criticism American literature - Women authors - History and criticism Food writing - United States Agricultural industries - United States Globalization
ISBN	1-107-32705-9 1-107-23811-0 1-316-61330-5 1-107-33515-9 1-139-50740-0 1-107-33349-0 1-107-33270-2 1-107-33681-3 1-107-33598-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the power of food; 2. Rural modernity: Willa Cather and the rise of agribusiness; 3. 'Luxury feeding' and war rations: food writing at midcentury; 4. Supermarkets and exotic foods: Toni Morrison's 'chocolate eater'; 5. Postindustrial pastoral: Ruth Ozeki and the new muckrakers; 6. Conclusion: food writing in the age of information; Bibliography; Notes; Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910452476003321

Autore	Nelson Stephanie A (Stephanie Anne), <1958->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (271 p.)
Disciplina	881.01
Soggetto topico	Didactic poetry, Classical - History and criticism Didactic poetry, Greek Mythology, Classical, in literature Agriculture - Greece Agriculture in literature Gods, Greek, in literature Gods, Roman, in literature Metaphysics in literature Farm life in literature Seasons in literature
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-19-972399-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Abbreviations; Geneaological Table; Translator's Note: Hesiod's Works and Days; HESIOD'S WORKS AND DAYS; INTRODUCTION: HESIOD, POET AND FARMER; Hesiod's Time; Hesiod's Town and Country; Hesiod-Or Was He?; 1. THE COMPOSITION OF HESIOD'S POEMS; The Composition of the Theogony; The Composition of the Works and Days; The Farmer's Year; 2. THE MYTHIC BACKGROUND; Hesiod's Outlook; Pandora and the Nature of Hardship; The Five Ages: The History of Hardship; Hesiod's Fable and the J ustice of Zeus; 3. THE COMPOSITION OF THE GEORGICS: VERGIL'S FARM; Roman Farming; Vergil's Works and Days Vergil and the Animals4. GOD; The Divine Order; Zeus and His Children; The Theology of Farming; The Gods of the Georgics; The Georgic of Force; The Georgic of Understanding; 5. THE HUMAN CONTEXT; Justice, Perception, and Farming; The Balance of Justice; The Place of Justice; Force and Order: Vergil and Caesar; The Third Georgic: The Problem of the Individual; The Fourth Georgic: The Promise of the Whole; 6. THE PLACE OF NATURE; The City, the Farm, and Nature; Orpheus and Aristaeus; Hesiod and the Balance of Nature; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R ST; U; V; W; X; Z
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910466246203321