neopastoral

English

Etymology

From neo- +‎ pastoral.

Adjective

neopastoral (comparative more neopastoral, superlative most neopastoral)

1. 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.