Pastoral Process: Spenser, Mervell, Milton

by Susan Snyder

Pastoral Process draws a basic distinction between two aspects of the pastoral ideal: the Arcadian pastoral, which locates the unspoiled paradise in space, apart from the complexities of city and court, and finds it accessible for limited periods of recuperation and reorientation; and the Golden Age mode, which locates the ideal pastoral life in time gone by, always already lost as soon as it is apprehended as paradise. The author's central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731063
• ISBN13: 9780804731065
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"