num_pages: 447
description: Using examples from different historical contexts this book examines the relationship between class nationalism modernity and the agrarian myth.Essentializing rural identity traditional culture and quotidian resistance both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below' surfacing in peasant movements film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty landowner and colonizer as disempowered ordinary or well-disposed towards those below whose interests they share underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural otherness abroad combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist the plebeian from home
language: English
title: Class, Culture, and the Agrarian Myth
publisher: Haymarket Books