Cultivating Peace
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
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During the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch found in these attitudes valuable ways of responding to the uncertainties of their own time. Composed during a period of brutal conflict in Rome, Virgil’s agricultural poem distrusts easy stability, urging its readers to understand that lasting peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Like the ancient poet, who famously depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Melissa Schoenberger is an assistant professor in the department of English at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century poetry. Her articles have appeared in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture 1660–1700 and Translation and Literature.
Introduction: The Arts of Peace
Chapter 1: Mutability: Cycles of War and Peace
On Mutability: Virgil’s First Lesson
Before Marvell: Georgic Mutability in England
The Trap of War and The Map of Paradise: Marvell’s Vision of Peace
Chapter 2: Translation: Virgil and Dryden in 1697
The English Virgil
Dryden’s Georgics: “Nor When the War is Over, Is it Peace”
From Peace to War: The Aeneis
Chapter 3: Contingency: The Georgic Poetry of Anne Finch
A Virgilian Retreat
Finch and the Force of Fable
Chapter 4: Imitation: The Georgics before and after 1713
John Philips and the Inmate Orchat
From Didactic to Descriptive
After Thomson: Christopher Smart, The Hop-Garden, and the End of Georgic Peace
Conclusion: “At Their Hours of Preparation”
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 14.01.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
Zusatzinfo | 5 B-W photos |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-68448-047-7 / 1684480477 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-68448-047-0 / 9781684480470 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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