Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-217) and index.
Contents:
Georgic modernity: sensory media and the affect of history -- The Georgics and the cultivation of mediums, 1660-1712 -- The microscopic eye and the noise of history in Thomson's The seasons -- Cowper's Georgic of the news: the 'loophole' in the retreat --'Passages of life': Aural histories in The excursion.
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