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Illuminates Jefferson’s cultural afterlife
Traces and complicates the history of the Southern pastoral novel
Extends scholarship beyond pastoral tropes to deeper our understanding of the Antebellum South and its literature
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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 literature alongside the existing body of research into the image of Jefferson following his death. Rather than assuming a homogeneous South, Templeton locates Southern pastoral in its specific political context, offering readings of significant factors such as the literary representation of landscape, of class and the yeoman ideal, and the institution of slavery and its intellectual underpinnings. Focusing on a six key Southern authors, both canonical and relatively understudied, the book charts key transformations in the politics of pastoral literature in the period, and noteworthy reconfigurations in the representation of Jefferson and his philosophies, in order to analyze what these signified to nineteenth-century Americans. In doing so, the text also demonstrates how ideologies react to the stresses imposed on them by political realities.
Reviews
“This book represents a significant intervention in the study of an undeservedly neglected subject. What Peter Templeton has to say makes a significant contribution to our understanding of a constellation of related subjects, including the politics of Southern pastoral, the literature of the emergent republic, and the powerful influence of Jefferson on early American literature.” (Richard Gray, Emeritus Professor of Literature, Fellow of the British Academy, Leverhulme Emeritus Research Professor, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
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Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Peter Templeton
About the author
Peter Templeton is Fellow of the School of the Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885
Book Subtitle: Jeffersonian Afterlives
Authors: Peter Templeton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04888-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04887-7Published: 12 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04888-4Published: 26 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 249
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, North American Literature, US History