The writing of rural England, 1500-1800
By: edited by Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae.
Contributors: Bending, Stephen.; McRae, Andrew.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Country life -- Literary collections; Rural conditions -- Literary collections; Country homes -- Literary collections; Country life -- England -- Sources; English literature -- 18th century; Landscape -- Literary collections; Gardens -- Literary collections; England -- Rural conditions -- Sources; England -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections.; Sources.
Description: The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labor. By drawing on both canonical and marginal texts, it argues that early-modern writing not only reflected but played a part in constructing the cultural meanings of the English countryside with which we continue to live.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.