neopastoral

comparative more neopastoral · superlative most neopastoral

1. Being or relating to a new or modern form of pastoral.

   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.

   2003, Andrew McMurry, Environmental Renaissance: Emerson, Thoreau, & the Systems of Nature, page 206