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contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 one Medieval Traditions of Writing Rural Labor 15 two The Invention of the English Eclogue 49 three The Pastoral Mode and Agrarian Capitalism 83 four Transforming Work: The Reformation and the Piers Plowman Tradition 111 five Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender and a Poetry of Rural Labor 143 six Reading Pastoral in Book 6 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene 171 Afterword: The Secret History of Pastoral 195 Notes 201 Works Cited 237 Index 249 ...