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FDU PRESS
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| New Versions of Pastoral: Post-Romantic, Modern, and Contemporary Responses to the Tradition |
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Editor - David James and Philip Tew
Publication Date - May 2009
Number of Pages - 285
ISBN #9780838641897
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Price $62.50 - Price subject to change
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| 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.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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David James is Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham, where his teaching and research concentrates on narrative theory, the modernist novel, and postwar criticism and fiction.
Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, where he specializes in contemporary British fiction, philosophical readings, and the socio-historical analysis of literary texts. |
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