neopastoral
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neopastoral (comparative more neopastoral, superlative most neopastoral)
- Being or relating to a new or modern form of pastoral.
- 2003, Andrew McMurry, Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, & the Systems of Nature, page 206:
- But while the traditional pastoral ideal is foreclosed, a neopastoral appeal is beginning to sound, whereby the logic of the via media is, mutatis mutandis, translated across time and space into the terrain of contemporary America.