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The Mid‐Eighteenth‐Century Georgic and Agricultural Improvement
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During the eighteenth century the didactic precepts of Virgil's Georgics were read as practical guidance by an emerging class of professional farmers, and a set of original vernacular georgics were written on agricultural improvement. Examining Smart's The Hop‐Garden, Dodsley's Agriculture, Dyer's The Fleece and Jago's Edge‐Hill, I argue that they offer a confident, progressive and scientific approach to land cultivation, revising the inherited attitudes of Virgilian georgic. I suggest, thoug...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2012.00549.x
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- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2013-01-10
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1754-0208
- ISSN:
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1754-0194
- Source identifiers:
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572206
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- pubs:572206
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- British Society for Eighteenth‐Century Studies
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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- © 2013 British Society for Eighteenth‐Century Studies. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2012.00549.x
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