Sue Edney is a lecturer in English at Bristol University, UK, the Reviews Editor for Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and the ecocriticism representative on the steering committee of the International Ecolinguistics Association.Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK, and previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds.

• Foreword by David Fairer Introduction PART I Defining Georgic 1. What Is Georgic’s Relation to Pastoral? 2. How Is Walden Georgic? 3. Middlemarch and the Georgic Novel PART II Managing Nature 4. Agrilogistics and Pest Control in Early Modern Georgic 5. James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and Naturalists’ Georgic 6. Rural Frances Burney 7. Wordsworth’s Tidal Georgic 8. Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’ and the Imperilled Georgic: Questions of Agricultural Permanence 9. Georgic Culture in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native: Participant Observation PART III Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene 10. Georgic Hope in Robert Bloomfield and John Clare 11. Seamus Heaney’s Elegiac and Domestic Georgics 12. The Semi-Georgic Australian Sugarcane Novel 13. Judith Wright and Virgil’s Third Georgic 14. Derek Jarman’s Gay Georgic 15. Georgic Reversals in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Days and Works Afterword

"The georgic is the genre of the Anthropocene. More than pastoral, georgic means a working countryside, humans embedded with nonhumans, sustaining without exploiting. These essays pose critical ecological questions arising from centuries of writing from Hesiod and Virgil to John Clare, Derek Jarman and Isabella Tree. Now more than ever we need the georgic to think with."Donna Landry, Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK

Sue Edney is a lecturer in English at Bristol University, UK, the Reviews Editor for Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and the ecocriticism representative on the steering committee of the International Ecolinguistics Association.Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK, and previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds.

• Foreword by David Fairer Introduction PART I Defining Georgic 1. What Is Georgic’s Relation to Pastoral? 2. How Is Walden Georgic? 3. Middlemarch and the Georgic Novel PART II Managing Nature 4. Agrilogistics and Pest Control in Early Modern Georgic 5. James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and Naturalists’ Georgic 6. Rural Frances Burney 7. Wordsworth’s Tidal Georgic 8. Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’ and the Imperilled Georgic: Questions of Agricultural Permanence 9. Georgic Culture in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native: Participant Observation PART III Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene 10. Georgic Hope in Robert Bloomfield and John Clare 11. Seamus Heaney’s Elegiac and Domestic Georgics 12. The Semi-Georgic Australian Sugarcane Novel 13. Judith Wright and Virgil’s Third Georgic 14. Derek Jarman’s Gay Georgic 15. Georgic Reversals in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Days and Works Afterword

"The georgic is the genre of the Anthropocene. More than pastoral, georgic means a working countryside, humans embedded with nonhumans, sustaining without exploiting. These essays pose critical ecological questions arising from centuries of writing from Hesiod and Virgil to John Clare, Derek Jarman and Isabella Tree. Now more than ever we need the georgic to think with."Donna Landry, Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK

Sue Edney is a lecturer in English at Bristol University, UK, the Reviews Editor for Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and the ecocriticism representative on the steering committee of the International Ecolinguistics Association.Tess Somervell is Lecturer in English at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK, and previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Leeds.

• Foreword by David Fairer Introduction PART I Defining Georgic 1. What Is Georgic’s Relation to Pastoral? 2. How Is Walden Georgic? 3. Middlemarch and the Georgic Novel PART II Managing Nature 4. Agrilogistics and Pest Control in Early Modern Georgic 5. James Grainger’s The Sugar-Cane and Naturalists’ Georgic 6. Rural Frances Burney 7. Wordsworth’s Tidal Georgic 8. Wordsworth’s ‘Michael’ and the Imperilled Georgic: Questions of Agricultural Permanence 9. Georgic Culture in Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native: Participant Observation PART III Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene 10. Georgic Hope in Robert Bloomfield and John Clare 11. Seamus Heaney’s Elegiac and Domestic Georgics 12. The Semi-Georgic Australian Sugarcane Novel 13. Judith Wright and Virgil’s Third Georgic 14. Derek Jarman’s Gay Georgic 15. Georgic Reversals in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Days and Works Afterword

"The georgic is the genre of the Anthropocene. More than pastoral, georgic means a working countryside, humans embedded with nonhumans, sustaining without exploiting. These essays pose critical ecological questions arising from centuries of writing from Hesiod and Virgil to John Clare, Derek Jarman and Isabella Tree. Now more than ever we need the georgic to think with."Donna Landry, Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent, UK