@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00027972,
 author = {Fujita, Kenji},
 journal = {IVY},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {No pastoral poetry seems to be thinkable without the relation to political ideology, politics, and power relations. The phrase "politico-pastoral" gives a starting point and a telos of this essay simultaneously. Politics is, I think, not only ideological, contemporary, social, but also economic, anachronistic, individual. So it should be especially for the subject being in front of the pastoral landscape of the country. Based on such a premise, I focus upon politics in the relationship between the subject and the landscape. It is in the discourse about the subject that I would like to focus upon the politicized landscape, the landscape to be politicized, the way of politicization in which landscape is ruled, rather than the relation between a pastoral poem and its politico-ideological background. Poems of William Cowper are useful enough to delve into these problems, especially from the viewpoints of madness, religion, and home economics. The problem of madness makes the identity of Cowper problematic: problematic, not because madness jeopardizes Cowper, but because it serves as a double-edged sword. That is, madness is a menace to his identity and, at the same time, an impelling force for him to be a pious evangelist. Focusing upon the process in which Cowper retroactively distances himself from madness, I find the connection between madness and his way of stabilization. Besides, religion as well as madness is indispensable for Cowper's identity. Religion gives him a chance to be one of God's elect. At a glance，religion seems to inscribe the name of God in the constative description, but God is a prosthesis of origin. This prosthesis makes Cowper devote himself to his religious faith. Thus the reference to madness and religion shows the economy of subject at work in Cowper.  The third point is the economy of subject from the viewpoints of home economics, nomos, and oikos. As far as the subject is concerned, the way in which Cowper describes landscape is political. It is proved by his rhetoric about family. Through the metaphor of family, nature as according to jus naturale enters the realm of nomos, oikos. This is a codification of nature by means of oiko-nomia, which exposes Cowper's tendency to patriarchy. By the patriarchal virtue of oiko-nomia, Cowper-as-father tries to rule landscape-as-son. Then, the distancing from objects and the taking of a high place make it easy for him to rule landscape. In consequence, Cowper politicizes landscape in the discourse of patriarchy, oiko-nomia.},
 pages = {1--29},
 title = {The Politicization of Landscape : William Cowper's The Task},
 volume = {32},
 year = {1999}
}