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Pastoral: Past, Present, Future

Editorial

Editorial
Introduction: pastoral and/as the “ecological work” of language
Thomas Pughe
Pages: 1-7
Published online: 05 Feb 2016
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Articles

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Five modes of ‘listening deeply’ to pastoral sounds
Terry Gifford
Pages: 8-19
Published online: 06 Jan 2016
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Ecology, species and poetry of the outlying lands: a Norwegian pastoral?
Trond Arnesen
Pages: 20-33
Published online: 10 Dec 2015
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‘At my buried ear’: Seamus Heaney’s pastoral soundings
Fanny Quément
Pages: 34-46
Published online: 06 Jan 2016
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The dark pastoral: Goethe and Atwood
Heather I. Sullivan
Pages: 47-59
Published online: 11 Dec 2015
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Unsettling environments: new pastorals in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go and Sarah Hall’s The Carhullan Army
Deborah Lilley
Pages: 60-71
Published online: 12 Jan 2016
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Pastoral pushback in the age of automation: US 1950s rustication narratives
Fred Waage
Pages: 72-85
Published online: 05 Feb 2016
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Sterling Brown and the georgic tradition in African-American literature
David R. Anderson
Pages: 86-96
Published online: 19 Jan 2016
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Book reviews

Book Review
Poetics and politics of place in pastoral: international perspectives, edited by Bénédict Chorier-Fryd, Charles Holdefer and Thomas Pughe, Bern, Peter Lang, 2015, 286 pp., £57.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-0343-1418-3
Terry Gifford
Pages: 97-99
Published online: 18 Jan 2016
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Romantic things: a tree, a rock, a cloud, by Mary Jacobus, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 2012, x + 221 pp., UK£35 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-226-39066-6
Pippa Marland
Pages: 99-102
Published online: 12 Jan 2016
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Romantic naturalists, early environmentalists: an ecocritical study, 1789-1912, by Dewey W. Hall, Farnham, Ashgate, 2014, viii + 232 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4097-2264-8
Terry Gifford
Pages: 102-104
Published online: 14 Jan 2016
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The Anthropocene: the human era and how it shapes our planet, by Christian Schwägerl, translated by Lucy Renner Jones, London, Synergetic Press, 2014, xii + 236 pp., £20.40 (hardback), ISBN 0-90-779154-9
Jeremy Davies
Pages: 104-107
Published online: 19 Jan 2016
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Chaos and cosmos: literary roots of modern ecology in the British nineteenth century, by Heidi C.M. Scott, University Park/Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014, 224 pp., US$64.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-271-0683-6
Daniela Kato
Pages: 107-108
Published online: 14 Jan 2016
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Urban ecologies: city space, material agency, and environmental politics in contemporary culture, by Christopher Schliephake, London, Lexington Books, 2014, xlviii + 219 pp., £60.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-0739195758
Stacy Alaimo
Pages: 109-111
Published online: 14 Jan 2016
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Food and the literary imagination, by Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Richard Marggraf Turley and Howard Thomas, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, vii + 222 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-137-40636-1
Sue Edney
Pages: 111-113
Published online: 05 Feb 2016
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Victorian literature, energy, and the ecological imagination, by Allen MacDuffie, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, ix + 305 pp., £60 (hardback), ISBN 9781107064379
John Miller
Pages: 113-115
Published online: 12 Jan 2016
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Note on the Cover Photograph

Life and ecology at the summerfarms
Trond Arnesen
Pages: 116-118
Published online: 05 Feb 2016
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Errata

Correction
Erratum
Sarah Ablett
Page: 121
Published online: 05 Feb 2016
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