Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee by Baldridge, Cates
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee by Baldridge, Cates

Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee

A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were...
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Author: Cates Baldridge
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Language: English
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Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee by Baldridge, Cates

Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee

$386.78
Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee by Baldridge, Cates

Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee

$386.78
Author: Cates Baldridge
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A critical examination of the 'agricultural trap' in literature

For thousands of years, agriculture and civilization were essentially synonymous. The superiority of farming over the unsettled, itinerant life of hunting and gathering appeared, to many, self-evident. Only recently has the field of anthropology challenged this assumption by positing that foragers were, and are, actually happier and healthier than people living in agro-cultures. Plowswords is the first work to consider the refiguring of the agricultural revolution into the agricultural trap through a literary lens. Reading texts that depict farmers in conflict with foragers, Cates Baldridge argues that agricultural ideology justified the tedium and toil of farming by enlisting a rhetorical foil: the "savage" and "backward" hunter-gatherer. Texts such as The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Heart of Darkness, and the novels of J. M. Coetzee use this figure either to exalt farming's triumph over foraging or to mourn the consequences of the agricultural turn, anxiously championing or stridently challenging the received wisdom of humanity's supposed progress.

Author: Cates Baldridge
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 07/26/2024
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780813951621

About the Author
Cates Baldridge is Philip Battell and Sarah F. Cowles Stewart Professor of English at Middlebury College and the author of The Dialogics of Dissent in the English Novel.
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