Title: The writing of rural England, 1500-1800
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.
Subjects: Literary collections, English literature, Country homes, Sources, Country life, Rural conditions, Gardens, Landscape, Landscapes, English literature (collections), early modern, 1500-1700, Great britain, rural conditions, Country life, great britain, English literature (collections), 18th century
Places: England
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 18th century