The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785-1885 Jeffersonian Afterlives /

• Main Author: Templeton, Peter (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-19th century.; America-Literatures.; United States-History.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; North American Literature.; US History.

In The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785-1885: Jeffersonian Afterlives, Peter Templeton presents a wide-ranging and systematic evaluation of pastoral in the nineteenth-century Southern novel, offering an explicit appraisal of the philosophical and political rationale of pastoral literat...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Pastoral Ideal of Thomas Jefferson
• The Pastoral Double Plot of Swallow Barn
• The Cavalier Cartography of The Kentuckian in New-York
• Strange Temporality of Pastoral in The Partisan Leader
• John Esten Cooke and Democratic Pastoral
• Domestic Pastoral in The Holcombes
• Joel Chandler Harris and the Pastoral of the New South
• Conclusion.