The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885

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 co