New versions of pastoral
Subtitle: post-romantic, modern, and contemporary responses to the tradition
By: edited by David James and Philip Tew.
Contributors: James, David, 1979-; Tew, Philip.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780838641897
Subjects: English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Pastoral literature, English -- History and criticism; Country life in literature; Nature in literature; Conservation of natural resources in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: reenvisioning the pastoral / David James and Philip Tew; title: The global bucolic heritage. "Doom-trumpet" in Elysium: the death-birth of the pastoral tradition in Carlyle's The French Revolution / David R. Sorensen; title: From glory to wasteland: rediscovering the country house in twentieth-century literature / Christine Berberich; title: "And with thee fade away into the forest dim": neopastoralism and romantic renascence in the ritual literature of modern witchcraft / Peg Aloi; title: Questioning our place in the world: the significance of pastoral in the work of Edwin Muir / Louisa Gairn; title: Modernist refractions. Idylls of masculinity: D. H. Lawrence's subversive pastoral / Susan Reid; title: Caradoc Evans's modernist antipastoral / Chris Hopkins; title: Intermodern pastoral: William Empson and George Orwell / Nick Hubble; title: Nationhood, provincialism, and community. Feminizing the nation and the country house: women dramatists, 1938-1941 / Rebecca D'Monte; title: "A full moon risen and the sheep gathered round him": exploring Samuel Beckett's uncanny postpastoral / Steven Barfield; title: The pastoral in the works of Fleur Adcock; title: / Janet Wilson; title: The poetics of the jungle in counterpastoral fictions of the Americas: writing the "dark" place / Maria Del Pilar Blanco; title: Contemporary legacies. Sheep thrills: pastoral camp in the AIDS elegies of Alan Hollinghurst / Christian Lassen; title: Jim Crace's enigmatical pastoral / Philip Tew; title: Afterword: new senses of "environment," new versions of pastoral / Terry Gifford.