American georgics : economy and environment in early American literature /
"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 engage...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2002.
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| Urunga tuihono: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhw55 |
Rārangi ihirangi:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Economy and Environment in Sixteenth-Century Promotional Literature; 2 ""God Sells Us All Things for Our Labour"": John Smith's Generall Historie; 3 ""Wonder-Working Providence"" of the Market; 4 ""Admirable Oeconomy"": Robert Beverley's Calculus of Compensation; 5 Ideologies of Farming: Crèvecoeur, Jefferson, Rush, and Brown; 6 Cherokee ""Improvements"" and the Removal Debate; 7 ""Co-Workers with Nature"": Cooper, Thoreau, and Marsh; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Acknowledgments.