Dolan Frances E. Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture 9780812252330

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Автор: Dolan Frances E.
Название: Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture
ISBN: 9780812252330
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 0812252330
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.54 кг.
Дата издания: 19.06.2020
Серия: Haney foundation series
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 11 illus.
Размер: 231 x 152 x 23
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Подзаголовок: How and why to imagine seventeenth-century agriculture
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A detailed study of seventeenth century farming practices and their relevance for today

We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even in the seventeenth century, Frances E. Dolan contends, some writers and thinkers voiced their reservations, both moral and environmental, about a philosophy of improvement that rationalized massive changes in land use, farming methods, and food production. Despite these reservations, the seventeenth century was a watershed in the formation of practices that would lead toward the industrialization of agriculture. But it was also a period of robust and inventive experimentation in what we now think of as alternative agriculture. This book approaches the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource for imagining the future of agriculture in fruitful ways. It invites both specialists and non-specialists to see and appreciate the period from the ground up.

Building on and connecting histories of food and work, literary criticism of the pastoral and georgic, histories of elite and vernacular science, and histories of reading and writing practices, among other areas of inquiry, Digging the Past offers fine-grained case studies of projects heralded as innovations both in the seventeenth century and in our own time: composting and soil amendment, local food, natural wine, and hedgerows. Dolan analyzes the stories seventeenth-century writers told one another in letters, diaries, and notebooks, in huge botanical catalogs and flimsy pamphlets, in plays, poems, and how-to guides, in adages and epics. She digs deeply to assess precisely how and with what effect key terms, figurations, and stories galvanized early modern imaginations and reappear, often unrecognized, on the websites and in the tour scripts of farms and vineyards today.

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Note on the Text
Introduction
Chapter 1. Feeding the Hungry Earth: Figuration, Composition, and Compost
Chapter 2. Knowing Your Food: Turnips, Titus, and the Local
Chapter 3. Saving Wine: Terroir and the Quest for Natural Wine

Digging the Past: How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century Agriculture, Dolan Frances E.