Eating Well: Agriculture and Place, Community and Progress, Wendell Berry and Thomas Hardy
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
2-10-2015 12:00 PM
Description
In Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow, the title character is reading Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and pronounces it a “good book.” Jayber Crow also contains significant parallels to Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. Both Hardy and Berry approach the turn of the century with concern for what it means to eat well—what the context is for being able to do so—in other words what kind of work and society, community and commitment, are required in order for people to live abundantly without living in excess and in ignorance of the cycle of life that must be respected if eating well is to be sustained. Dr. Sisson will explore these parallels, suggesting how Hardy’s late nineteenth century ethos differs from but also informs Berry’s late twentieth- (and early twenty-first-) century view of eating well and sustainable living.
Recommended Citation
Sisson, Annette PhD, "Eating Well: Agriculture and Place, Community and Progress, Wendell Berry and Thomas Hardy" (2015). Humanities Symposium. 8.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2015/2015/8
Eating Well: Agriculture and Place, Community and Progress, Wendell Berry and Thomas Hardy
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
In Wendell Berry’s Jayber Crow, the title character is reading Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders and pronounces it a “good book.” Jayber Crow also contains significant parallels to Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure. Both Hardy and Berry approach the turn of the century with concern for what it means to eat well—what the context is for being able to do so—in other words what kind of work and society, community and commitment, are required in order for people to live abundantly without living in excess and in ignorance of the cycle of life that must be respected if eating well is to be sustained. Dr. Sisson will explore these parallels, suggesting how Hardy’s late nineteenth century ethos differs from but also informs Berry’s late twentieth- (and early twenty-first-) century view of eating well and sustainable living.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture