Research Catalog

Title

Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics / edited by Bobby Xinyue & Nicholas Freer.

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Xinyue, Bobby
• Freer, Nicholas

Description

ix, 286 pages; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs

Uniform Title

Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.

Subject

• Virgil
• Virgil > Influence
• Georgica (Virgil)
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-266) and indexes.

Contents

Reading the Georgics -- The story of you: second-person narrative and the narratology of the Georgics / Robert Cowan -- Clearing the ground in Georgics 1 / Stephen J. Heyworth -- Aesthetics, form and meaning in the Georgics / Richard Thomas -- Religion and philosophy -- Georgica and Orphica: the Georgics in the context of Orphic poetry and religion / Tom Mackenzie -- Virgil's Georgics and the Epicurean sirens of poetry / Nicholas Freer -- Politics and society -- Divinization and didactic efficacy in Virgil's Georgics / Bobby Xinyue -- Bunte barbaren setting up the stage: re-inventing the barbarian on the Georgics' theatre-temple (G. 3.1-48) / Elena Giusti -- From Munera uestra cano to Ipse dona feram: language of social reciprocity in the Georgics / Martin Stockinger -- Roman responses -- "Pulpy fiction": Virgilian reception and genre in Columella De re rustica 10 / Sara Myers -- Servian readings of religion in the Georgics / Ailsa Hunt -- Modern responses -- The Georgics off the Canadian coast: Marc Lescarbot's Adieu à la Nouvelle-France (1609) and the Virgilian tradition / William Barton -- Shelley's Georgic landscape / Katharine Earnshaw -- Women and earth: female responses to Virgil's Georgics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Susanna Braund.

Call Number

JFE 19-6243

ISBN

• 9781350070516
• 1350070513

LCCN

2018040922

OCLC

1052877795

Title

Reflections and new perspectives on Virgil's Georgics / edited by Bobby Xinyue & Nicholas Freer.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Bloomsbury Classical Studies Monographs

Bloomsbury classical studies monographs.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-266) and indexes.

Added Author

Xinyue, Bobby, editor.

Freer, Nicholas, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-6243