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CASA Celebration

Dr. Ethan Mannon

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"Mountain Georgics: Appalachia and Everyday Nature"

Appalachian Ecocricitism and the Paradox of Place. Ed. Jessica Cory and Laura Wright. University of Georgia Press, 2023.

In this essay I argue that much Appalachian literature runs parallel to the georgic mode--a tradition of texts fixated on the notion of place and characterized by people living and working on the land.