Modernity and the English rural novel /
Head, Dominic,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The rural regional novel: the interwar vogue -- "The everlasting land": farming and the novel -- Rural primitivism: "Splendour in writing" -- "The vanished world": the appeal of rural nostalgia -- "A tugging at the heart": legacies of the rural tradition -- Afterword.
Country life in literature.
Rural conditions in literature.
English fiction