| New Versions of Pastoral: Post-Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Responses to the Tradition Contributor(s): James, David (Editor), Tew, Philip (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1611473985 ISBN-13: 9781611473988 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $108.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Reference - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Physical Information: 285 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Bringing together both established and emerging scholars of the long nineteenth century, literary modernism, landscape and hemispheric studies, and contemporary fiction, New Versions of Pastoral offers a historically wide-ranging account of the Bucolic tradition, tracing the formal diversity of pastoral writing up to the present day. Dividing its analytic focus between periods, the volume contextualizes a wide range of exemplary practitioners, genres, and movements: contributors attend to early modernism's vacillation between critiquing and aestheticizing the rise of primitivist nostalgia; the ambiguous mythologization of the English estate by the twentieth-century manor house novel; and the post-national revisiting of the countryside and its sovereign status in contemporary imaginings of regional life. |