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Toni Morrison: The pastoral as a place far from Eden

The Greeks might have invented the pastoral, the genre in which the rustic life is idealized by writers who don't have to live it, but it's found its truest home in America. To Europeans of the so-called Age of Discovery, the whole North American continent seemed a sort of Edenic rod and gun club, and their descendants here still haven't gotten over their obsession with the pure primal landscapes they despoil with their own presence. A straight line — if only spiritually — runs from Fenimore Cooper's wild Adirondacks and Hawthorne's sinister Massachusetts forests to Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" to Cheever's domesticated locus amoenus of Shady Hill to the theme park in George Saunders's pointedly titled "Pastoralia" — where slaughtered goats are delivered to employees in Neolithic costume through a slot in the wall of their ca

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The Greeks might have invented the pastoral, the genre in which the rustic life is idealized by writers who don't have to live it, but it's found its truest home in America. To Europeans of the so-called Age of Discovery, the whole North American continent seemed a sort of Edenic rod and gun club, and their descendants here still haven't gotten over their obsession with the pure primal landscapes they despoil with their own presence. A straight line — if only spiritually — runs from Fenimore Cooper's wild Adirondacks and Hawthorne's sinister Massachusetts forests to Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River" to Cheever's domesticated locus amoenus of Shady Hill to the theme park in George Saunders's pointedly titled "Pastoralia" — where slaughtered goats are delivered to employees in Neolithic costume through a slot in the wall of their ca

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