Updated throughout, this new edition provides a clear and invaluable introduction to the
study of pastoral. Terry Gifford traces the history of the genre from its classical origins …

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for
citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed …

John Rogers here addresses the literary and ideological consequences of the remarkable, if
improbable, alliance between science and politics in seventeenth-century England. He …

The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might
destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This …

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Sweeping across scholarly
disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern …

The poet Virgil remains the most significant and influential figure in Latin literature, and this
expanded and updated Companion covers his life, work, and reception from antiquity to the …

In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent" green"
criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the …

Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the great works of literature, of any time and in any
language. Marked by Milton's characteristic erudition it is a work epic both in scale and …

Pretexts of Authority describes the Renaissance rhetoric of authorship and authority by
examining the textual locus where this rhetoric appears in its most concentrated and …

Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-
1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake …