Reflections and New Perspectives on Virgil s Georgics Nicholas Freer

PART I READING THE GEORGICS

CHAPTER 1 THE STORY OF YOU: SECOND-PERSON NARRATIVE AND THE NARRATOLOGY OF THE GEORGICS

CHAPTER 2 CLEARING THE GROUND IN GEORGICS 1

CHAPTER 3 AESTHETICS, FORM AND MEANING IN THE GEORGICS

PART II RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER 4 GEORGICA AND ORPHICA : THE GEORGICS IN THE CONTEXT OF ORPHIC POETRY AND RELIGION

CHAPTER 5 VIRGIL’S GEORGICS AND THE EPICUREAN SIRENS OF POETRY

PART III POLITICS AND SOCIETY

CHAPTER 6 DIVINIZATION AND DIDACTIC EFFICACY IN VIRGIL’S GEORGICS*

CHAPTER 7 BUNTE BARBAREN SETTING UP THE STAGE: RE-INVENTING THE BARBARIAN ON THE GEORGICS’ THEATRE

CHAPTER 8 FROM MUNERA UESTRA CANO TO IPSE DONA FERAM : LANGUAGE OF SOCIAL RECIPROCITY IN THE GEORGIC

PART IV ROMAN RESPONSES

CHAPTER 9 ‘PULPY FICTION’: VIRGILIAN RECEPTION AND GENRE IN COLUMELLA DE RE RUSTICA10

CHAPTER 10 SERVIAN READINGS OF RELIGION IN THE GEORGICS

PART V MODERN RESPONSES

CHAPTER 11 THE GEORGICS OFF THE CANADIAN COAST: MARC LESCARBOT’S A-DIEU À LA NOUVELLE-FRANCE (160

CHAPTER 12 SHELLEY’S GEORGIC LANDSCAPE

CHAPTER 13 WOMEN AND EARTH: FEMALE RESPONSES TO THE GEORGICS IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTU