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    American Georgics
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    American GeorgicsEconomy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864Timothy SweetSweet offers a wide-ranging examination of the agricultural work of North American men and women as seen through the lens of literature. . . . Sweets greatest achievement is his ability to integrate hundreds of years of discourse about the North American continent into a cohesive narrative of evolving perceptions of environment and humankinds role in shaping it.--American LiteratureThoughtful, critically intelligent, and well-informed.--Lawrence Buell, Harvard UniversityIn 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 communitys 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 Marshs Man and Nature (1864), the foundational text in the conservationist movement.Timothy Sweet is Professor of English at West Virginia University. He is the author also of Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union.2001 | 232 pages | 6 x 9ISBN 978-0-8122-3637-8 | Cloth | $69.95s | £45.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0318-9 | Ebook | $69.95s | £45.50 World Rights | Literature, Cultural StudiesShort copy:American Georgics takes as its primary problem the question of the human place in nature. By extending our understanding of what counts as environmental literature back before Thoreau, Sweet shows that early texts, while not necessarily green in contemporary terms, can offer impor
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