American Georgics
Subtitle: Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780812236378
Subjects: American studies; Literature: History & Criticism; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Environmental literature; Literary Criticism; USA; Pastoral literature, American; American - General; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Didactic literature, American; American literature; History and criticism
First sentence: We owe the first recorded moment of ecological insight in British North America to Stephen Parmenius, intended chronicler of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's ill-fated second voyage of 1583.