Rural Scenes and National Representation : : Britain, 1815-1850 / / Elizabeth K. Helsinger.
Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Literature in History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 15 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION. LAND AND THE NATION
- PART I. ICONS AND AUDIENCES
- ONE. CONSTABLE: THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL PAINTER
- TWO. OUT OF THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY: TENNYSON'S ENGLISH IDYLS
- PART II. CONTESTED GROUND
- THREE. COBBETT'S RADICAL HUSBANDRY
- FOUR. CLARE AND THE PLACE OF THE PEASANT POET
- FIVE. TURNER'S ENGLAND AND WALES
- SIX. BRONTE'S GHOSTS
- RETROSPECT. ELIOT'S RISKY HISTORY
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR