Archive 2015

Why the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’ Isn’t One: Early Modern Vitalism and the Emotions of Nature in Shakespeare and Milton

The Practice of Pastoral Empathy in Wordsworth’s Salisbury Plain Poems

Representation and Particularity in Pastoral: Some Examples from Walden

Nude Bathing Scenes as an Australian Pastoral Mode: Strategies and Tactics in Australian Art around the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Wildness and Wilderness: Anti-pastoralism and the Problematic Politics of Edward Abbey

Barbara Kingsolver’s Singing Shepherd: The Lacuna as Pastoral Elegy

Ecopastoralism: Settler Colonial Pastoral Imaginary in the US West and Australian Outback

A Pastoral Reading of Christina Stead’s Cotters’ England

Introduction: Why Pastoral?

Amanda Lohrey's Vertigo: An Australian Pastoral