TY - JOUR
T1 - An organic commerce
T2 - Sociable selfhood in eighteenth-century georgic
AU - Genovese, Michael
PY - 2013/12
Y1 - 2013/12
N2 - "Organic Commerce" argues that eighteenth-century georgic poetry imagines alignments of economic and sentimental intersubjectivity that define profit as the expansion of sociable networks, not the pursuit of private gain. While georgic is often read as a conservative genre complicit in the exploitation of labor, I direct attention to how it adapts paternalistic agricultural traditions to modern commercial practices in order to criticize the excesses and inequalities of those practices without abandoning them. Georgic poetry's critique creates an alternative economics characterized by the melding of mutual feeling with production and the redirection of self-interest towards a cooperative whole governed by sympathy yet conducive to profit. However, this inclusiveness is ultimately secured by a specifically British commerce and an underlying violence that halts the expansion of georgic sociability at the shoreline.
AB - "Organic Commerce" argues that eighteenth-century georgic poetry imagines alignments of economic and sentimental intersubjectivity that define profit as the expansion of sociable networks, not the pursuit of private gain. While georgic is often read as a conservative genre complicit in the exploitation of labor, I direct attention to how it adapts paternalistic agricultural traditions to modern commercial practices in order to criticize the excesses and inequalities of those practices without abandoning them. Georgic poetry's critique creates an alternative economics characterized by the melding of mutual feeling with production and the redirection of self-interest towards a cooperative whole governed by sympathy yet conducive to profit. However, this inclusiveness is ultimately secured by a specifically British commerce and an underlying violence that halts the expansion of georgic sociability at the shoreline.
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U2 - 10.1353/ecs.2013.0002
DO - 10.1353/ecs.2013.0002
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84873590469
SN - 0013-2586
VL - 46
SP - 197
EP - 221
JO - Eighteenth-Century Studies
JF - Eighteenth-Century Studies
IS - 2
ER -