Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral

Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd and Charles Holdefer teach English at the University of Poitiers. Both specialize in contemporary American fiction. Holdefer is also a published novelist. Thomas Pughe teaches English at the University of Orléans. His main field is ecocriticism. The editors are founding members of a research team on the pastoral that brings together scholars from various French universities.

• Contents: Andy Auckbur: «take that goodness in hand»: The Representation of Nature and the Power of Beauty in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia – Fabien Desset: From «The Cimmerian Ravines of Modern Cities» to the «Upaithric» Temples of Pastoral Greece: The Place of Nature in Shelley’s Ancient Ruins – Mathilde Arrivé: From Wild West to Mild West: Photographic Eclogues of the Indian West in the «Post-Frontier» Era – Nancy Wolsk: Rosa Bonheur: Pastoral Visions – Amy Wells: A City Girl’s Pastoral Playground: A Geocritical Approach to Gendered Arcadia in Anaïs Nin’s Cities of the Interior – Aurore Clavier: «The Savage’s Romance»: The Culture of Pastoral in the Poetry of Marianne Moore – Andrew McKeown: A Pastoral Place in Language? The poems of Edward Thomas – Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd: The Pasture and the Freeway in Thomas Pynchon’s California – Idom Inyabri: Joe Ushie’s Pastoral Vision in Popular Stand and Hill Songs – Thomas Pughe: Pastoralism, Poetics and Politics in Three Texts by Rick Bass from the 1990s – François Specq: «Walking in the Greater Garden»: Thoreau and the Pastoral Ideal – Aurélie Griffin: The Quest for Arcadia in Philip Sidney’s Arcadia(s) and Mary Wroth’s Urania – Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet: Pastoral Motifs in British Social-realist Cinema: Illusions and Disillusions in the Quest for a locus amoenus – Laetitia Sansonetti: Knights among shepherds: courtly pastorals in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1596) – Charles Holdefer: Machines at Work and Play: George Saunders and the Post-Pastoral.