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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 3 September 2020
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350151505
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 481 g
- Language English 101
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Long description:
Virgil's Georgics depicts the world and its peoples in great detail, but this geographical interest has received little detailed scholarly attention. Hundreds of years later, readers in the British empire used the poem to reflect upon their travels in acts of imagination no less political than Virgil's own. Virgil's Map combines a comprehensive survey of the literary, economic, and political geography of the Georgics with a case study of its British imperial reception c. 1840-1930.
Part One charts the poem's geographical interests in relation to Roman power in and beyond the Mediterranean; shifting readers' attention away from Rome, it explores how the Georgics can draw attention to alternative, non-Roman histories. Part Two examines how British travellers quoted directly from the poem to describe peoples and places across the world, at times equating the colonial subjects of European empires to the 'happy farmers' of Virgil's poem, perceived to be unaware, and in need, of the blessings of colonial rule.
Drawing attention to the depoliticization of the poem in scholarly discourse, and using newly discovered archival material, this interdisciplinary work seeks to re-politicize both the poem and its history in service of a decolonizing pedagogy. Its unique dual focus allows for an extended exploration, not just of geography and empire, but of Europe's long relationship with the wider world.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: Rome and the Roman empire, 29 BCE
1. The World and its Peoples
2. Provincializing Rome
3. Civil War
4. 'All Italy'
Part Two: Britain and the British empire, c. 1840-1930
5. An Aesthetic Trend
6. The Georgics Abroad
7. 'Happy Farmers'
8. The Georgics At Home
Conclusion: Towards a Decolonizing Pedagogy of Latin Literature
Appendix: The Geography of the Georgics
Notes
References
Index of passages from the Georgics
Index
