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new versions of pastoral post romantic modern and contemporary responses to the tradition
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 modernisms 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 country side and its sovereign status in contemporary imaginings of regional life .