 | American Georgics: Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864 Subjects: 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 -- H; 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 important insights into our relationship to the environment. 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. |
