Pastoral and ideology : Virgil to Valéry
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Pastoral and ideology : Virgil to Valéry
Clarendon Press, 1988
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This study follows the fortunes of Virgil's "Eclogues" from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. It argues that Virgilian pastoral spoke to the intellectuals of each place and time, of their own condition and allowed them to formulate, through their transmission of the text, their own ideological stance. An important aspect of this process was the tradition of visual illustration, itself a form of interpretation, and naturally a cogent witness to aesthetic change. Among the writers included are Petrarch, Landino, Vives, Marot, Spenser, Milton, Dryden, Fontenelle, Pope, Voltaire, Wordsworth, Valery and Frost. Among the artists are Simone Martini, Sebastian Brant, Francis Cleyn, David, Blake, Palmer, Maillol and Villon. The author aims to reinspect the standard system of periodization in literary and art history, and to challenge some of the current premises of modernism. The work is designed to be of interest to those in the departments of Classics and of English and European literature and art history. Professor Patterson was named runner-up for the Clifford Prize 1985-86 for her article "Pastoral and ideology - the neoclassical fete champetre".
Table of Contents
- Introduction. Part 1 Medievalism - Petrarch and the Servian hermeneutic: Petrarch's pastorals - imitation as interpretation
- "In the shade" - metaphors of patronage
- ruins in the realm of thoughts. Part 2 Versions of Renaissance humanism: the commentary tradition including Virgil for the Medicis - Landino and Politian, Vives and Virgilian eschatology, Sebastian Brant - illustration as exegesis
- reopening the green cabinet - Clement Marot and Edmund Spenser. Part 3 Going public: pastoral versus Georgie - the politics of Virgilian quotation
- "Making them his own" - the politics of translation. Part 4 Neoclassicism and the fete champetre: Pope and Philips - pastorals at war
- pastoral and social protest including Voltaire, Andre Chenier, Charles Churchill, Oliver Goldsmith and George Crabbe
- images of belief - illustrated editions and translations including Desfontaines and the "Discours de ruelle", John Martyn and the eye of science, the Didot "Virgil" - representations of counter-revolution, Thornton and Blake - reformist text and radical image. Part 5 Post-Romanticism - Wordsworth to Valery: Wordsworth's hard pastoral
- Samuel Palmer's Virgil "con amore"
- Andre Gide and fin de siecle pastoral
- "A book for kings, students or whores" - The Cranach Press
- "Eclogues"
- Paul Valery and the French fine book. Index.
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