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New versions of pastoral : post-romantic, modern, and contemporary responses to the tradition
- Title
- New versions of pastoral : post-romantic, modern, and contemporary responses to the tradition / edited by David James and Philip Tew.
- Publication
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
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- Description
- 285 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-272) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: reenvisioning pastoral / David James and Philip Tew -- The global bucolic heritage. "Doom-trumpet" in Elysium: the death-birth of the pastoral tradition in Carlyle's The French Revolution / David R. Sorensen -- From glory to wasteland: rediscovering the country house in twentieth-century literature / Christine Berberich -- "And with thee fade away into the forest dim": neopastoralism and romantic renascence in the ritual literature of modern witchcraft / Peg Aloi -- Questioning our place in the world: the significance of pastoral in the work of Edwin Muir / Louisa Gairn -- Modernist refractions. Idylls of masculinity: D. H. Lawrence's subversive pastoral / Susan Reid -- Caradoc Evans's modernist antipastoral / Chris Hopkins -- Intermodern pastoral: William Empson and George Orwell / Nick Hubble -- Nationhood, provincialism, and community. Feminizing the nation and the country house: women dramatists, 1938-1941 / Rebecca D'Monté -- -- "A full moon risen and the sheep gathered round him": exploring Samuel Beckett's uncanny postpastoral / Steven Barfield -- The pastoral in the works of Fleur Adcock / Janet Wilson -- The poetics of the jungle in counterpastoral fictions of the Americas: writing the "dark" place / María Del Pilar Blanco -- Contemporary legacies. Sheep thrills: pastoral camp in the AIDS elegies of Alan Hollinghurst / Christian Lassen -- Jim Crace's enigmatical pastoral / Philip Tew -- Afterword: new senses of "environment," new versions of pastoral / Terry Gifford.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-3038
- ISBN
- 9780838641897 (alk. paper)
- 083864189X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008029256
- OCLC
- 234175945
- Title
- New versions of pastoral : post-romantic, modern, and contemporary responses to the tradition / edited by David James and Philip Tew.
- Imprint
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-272) and index.
- Added Author
- James, David, 1979-Tew, Philip.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-3038