Melissa Schoenberger

Cultivating Peace

The Virgilian Georgic in English, 1650-1750

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 labour.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781684480470
• ISBN-10: 1684480477
• Artikelnr.: 54268481

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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