Rural Modernity in Britain : : A Critical Intervention / / Kristin Bluemel, Michael McCluskey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Bluemel, Kristin,; McCluskey, Michael,
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Edward,; Bluemel, Kristin,; Deen, Stella,; Harrison, Nigel,; Head, Dominic,; Holt, Ysanne,; Hopkins, Chris,; Hubble, Nick,; Leaper, Hana,; Lowe, Peter,; McCluskey, Michael,; Mills, Polly,; Robertson, Iain,; Shaw, Samuel,; Shirley, Rosemary,; Summers-Bremner, Eluned,; Walker, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 46 B/W illustrations 13 colour illustrations 1 B/W tables

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and cultureRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced economic depression, the expansion of transportation and communication networks, the roll out of electricity, the loss of land, and the erosion of local identities. Who celebrated these changes? Who resisted them? Who documented them?Essays in this collection make the case that the rural means more than just the often-studied countryside of southern England, a retreat from the consequences of modernity; rather, the rural emerges as a source for new versions of the modern, with an active role in the formation and development of British experiences and representations of modernity.Key FeaturesIntrodues readers to concept of rural modernity that locates its critical intervention in fields of modernism and modernity studiesSplit into five sections addressing Networks, Landscapes, Communities, Heritage, and WarIncludes In dialogue with" suggestions to guide readers across interdisciplinary contents of diverse chaptersContributors from England, Scotland, USA, New Zealand and Canada, representing fields of literature, art history, history, geography, and cultural studies"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain -- Part I Networks -- Chapter 1 Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy’s Communication Networks -- Chapter 2 Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain -- Chapter 3 Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century -- Part II Landscapes -- Chapter 4 Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity -- Chapter 5 Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain -- Chapter 6 Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the Wars -- Part III Communities -- Chapter 7 The ‘Uncertainty of Our Climate’: Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre -- Chapter 8 The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction -- Chapter 9 Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair -- Part IV Heritage -- Chapter 10 Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders -- Chapter 11 Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis -- Chapter 12 Celebrating England: ‘Heritage’ Writing and the Rural Novelist -- Part V Wars -- Chapter 13 Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime -- Chapter 14 Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals -- Chapter 15 Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford -- Notes on Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index