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The Pastoral
It’s not all about the sheep
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Classical Pastoral
• Est. by Theocritus in Greek (3rd century BCE)
• Popularized by Virgil in Latin: Ecologues
• Also: bucolic poetry, idyll, ecologue
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ConventionsTHE GOLDEN AGE
• Golden Age: a time of simplicity and perfection associated with the past– Simple– Innocent– Close to nature =
close to Nature
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IDEALIZED NATURAL SETTING
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Ideal vs the Real
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SHEPHERD’S LIFE FOR ME
• idealized labour• Carpe diem• Note the nakedness
—both a patriarchal sign and a figure for the “natural” openness and truthfulness of the country
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Satirical Pastoral: The “Contrivance” of The Court
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This is not the escapism you were looking for.
• Strong connection between the pastoral space and the space of the city or Court
• Replication or reproduction of Courtly models in the country– Displaced articulation of critique– Alternative perspective on the “centre”
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Sheep: Cash Crop
• Woolen industry = the engine of English economy
• Much animosity between peasantry and “big business” over– Enclosure– Manufacture– Suppression of traditional celebrations
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Shaggy Foreground Objects
• Idealization of the Pastoral subject (lusty shepherds, buxom milk-maids) and the type of labour they undertake– Effaces political tension– Effaces material conditions– Figures the pastoral
landscape as a “time out of time”
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Hindsight: Nostalgia