Contributions

  • Bending, Stephen. - Contributor
  • McRae, Andrew. - Contributor

Publication

2003 - Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England

Language

English

Word Count

69,000 words, Guess

Page Count

276 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC820.8/0321734
  • LCCPR1111.C6 W75 2003

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

Genres

  • Sources.
  • Literary collections.

Other Editions

  • The writing of rural England, 1500-1800Palgrave Macmillan2003-01-01

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