American georgics : economy and environment in early American literature / Timothy Sweet

Author:: Sweet, Timothy, 1960-
Published:: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2002]
Copyright Date:: ©2002
Physical Description:: 222 pages ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Economy and environment in sixteenth-century promotional literature -- "God sells us all things for our labour": John Smith's Generall Historie -- "Wonder-working providence" of the market -- "Admirable oeconomy": Robert Beverley's calculus of compensation -- Ideologies of farming: Crèvecoeur, Jefferson, Rush, and Brown -- Cherokee "improvements" and the removal debate -- "Co-workers with nature": Cooper, Thoreau, and Marsh.

Subject(s):

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—History
Agriculture in literature
Economics in literature
Nature in literature

ISBN:

0812236378 (acid-free paper)
9780812236378 (acid-free paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-214) and index.

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