Cover; Contents; Introduction: Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral: International Perspectives; I. Celebrating the Pastoral Ideal: Classical Locations, Modern Places; "Take that goodness in hand": the Representation of Nature and the Power of Beauty in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia (Andy Auckbur); From "The Cimmerian Ravines of Modern Cities" to the "Upaithric" Temples of Pastoral Greece: The Place of Nature in Shelley's Ancient Ruins (Fabien Desset); From Wild West to Mild West: Photographic Eclogues of the Indian West in the "Post-Frontier" Era (Mathilde Arrivé)
Rosa Bonheur -- Pastoral Visions (Nancy Coleman Wolsk)A City Girl's Pastoral Playground: A Geocritical Approach to Gendered Arcadia in Anaïs Nin's Cities of the Interior (Amy Wells); II. Critical Reappropriations of Pastoral Motifs; "The Savage's Romance": The Culture of Pastoral in the Poetry of Marianne Moore (Aurore Clavier); A Pastoral Place in Language? The Poems of Edward Thomas (1878-1917) (Andrew McKeown); The Pasture and the Freeway in Thomas Pynchon's California (Bénédicte Chorier-Fryd); Joe Ushie's Pastoral Vision in Popular Stand and Hill Songs (Idom T. Inyabri)
Pastoralism, Poetics and Politics in Three Texts by Rick Bass from the 1990s (Thomas Pughe)III. Challenges and Relocations: the Simple Made Complex?; "Walking in the Greater Garden": Henry David Thoreau and the Pastoral Ideal (François Specq); The Quest for Arcadia in Philip Sidney's Arcadia(s) and Mary Wroth's Urania (Aurélie Griffin); Pastoral Motifs in British Social-Realist Cinema: Illusions and Disillusions in the Quest for a Locus Amoenus (Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet); Knights among Shepherds: Courtly Pastorals in Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596) (Laetitia Sansonetti)
