Klinck

Klinck, 'This Other Eden: Lord Denning's Pastoral Vision' (1994)   - The pastoral convention involved the idealized description of the life of shepherd in an idyllic setting - The essence of pastoral can be seen as the process of putting the “complex into the simple” - Two consequences of these conceptions: o Pastoral is created by sophisticated people about simple or humble people o Complex or sophisticated humans can be understood in terms of simple human nature - The relationship of the pastoral to the heroic: Pastoral is that the sophisticated world of heroic action can learn from the pastoral world; another implication is that, in some sense the important person and the unimportant persons are equals, or ideally together, as part of the same integrated social order - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Pastoralism can also be seen as the “nostalgia for the good old days” <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lord Denning uses delightful pictures in his judicial writings (New Windsor Corporation v. Mellor) or books <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This reflects a sort of nostalgia, both personal and historical <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">We encounter nostalgia frequently in Lord Denning’s writings in a variety of forms <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">It can be associated with the description of a place, occupation, family, etc <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">His judgments evince a looking back to the way things used to be <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">-  <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This nostalgia also appears in his attitude towards the law itself. He has commonly been regarded as a reformer and an invocator, but the impulse for change can often be rooted in either creativity or conservatism. Lord Denning says that the common law cannot stand still whilst everything else moves on. He therefore challenged the notion of binding precedent, a discovery of the nineteenth century. For instance, when he questions the doctrine of the privity of contract, he does not see himself so much something new as restoring something that has been lost. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lord Denning often identifies “simple people” as “folks” <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">He also tends to idealize them and identify with them <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Descriptions he makes of them tend to be very self-conscious – as in his resort to extremely simple syntax – that he justifies by saying that it is a mean to be understood by ordinary folk <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This suggests that he is both capable of a more sophisticated speech than these ordinary folks, and that they have to be spoken down to <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lord Denning repeatedly, in his judgements, expresses regret over the incursions industrial and other development have been making into the rural landscape <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lord Denning’s favourite place is England itself, both geographically and institutionally <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">This can be seen in his recurrent ethnic consciousness <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial; msofareastfontfamily: Arial; msolist: Ignore;">- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">He also considers that England has been invaded by those “who seek England as a haven” <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Introduction to Pastoralism: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Pastoral in Lord Denning: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">(a) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Delightful pictures **
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">(d) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Fragile Enclave **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Tahoma; msofareastfontfamily: Tahoma; msolist: Ignore;">(e) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">“This other Eden”: **