Rural Modernity in Britain : : A Critical Intervention /

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

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 modernit...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 46 B/W illustrations 13 colour illustrations 1 B/W tables
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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

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