Agriculture and the Land : : Richard Jefferies' Essays and Letters / / Rebecca Welshman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Welshman, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

A collection of articles and letters by Richard Jefferies on agriculture and social changeThis book brings together previously uncollected essays on the changing conditions of agriculture and rural life in the 1870s and 1880s. These items, many of which are unknown to researchers, were first published in leading periodicals of the time and offer new insight into the trajectory and timeframe of Jefferies’ career. The material offers fresh perspectives on the economics and politics of agriculture, the condition of the agricultural labourer, the use of steam power, the land question, education and changing farming practices.Key FeaturesContains significant new material by Jefferies that is republished here for the first time since it appeared in the Victorian periodical pressOffers new material for research in the areas of Victorian literature, the environmental humanities, the history of agriculture and politics, and to those with interests in rural writingContains a number of newly attributed essays and letters

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Introduction -- Notes on Periodicals -- Richard Jefferies’ Essays and Letters -- Drought and Water, Pall Mall Gazette, 28 June 1870 -- Farmers at Bay, Pall Mall Gazette, 8 February 1871 -- The Old Sporting Man, Pall Mall Gazette, 1 February 1872 -- The County Franchise, Pall Mall Gazette, 1 May 1872 -- The Rating of Personal Property, Standard, 23 May 1872 -- The Poetry of Steam-Ploughs, Graphic, 5 October 1872 -- The Wiltshire Labourer, The Times, 14 November 1872 -- Wiltshire Farmers and Labourers, The Times, 27 November 1872 -- The Future of Farming, The Times, 15 October 1873 -- The Farmer from his own Point of View, Pall Mall Gazette, 23 April 1874 -- The Power of the Farmers, Fortnightly Review, 1 June 1874 -- Patchwork Agriculture, Examiner, July 1875 -- The Cost of Agricultural Labour in 1875, Standard, 1 October 1875 -- Local Taxation, Standard, 29 December 1875 -- The Spirit of Modern Agriculture, New Quarterly Magazine, July 1876 -- Joint-stock Agriculture, Pall Mall Gazette, 16 March 1877 -- The Landowners’ Diffi culties, Pall Mall Gazette, 29 March 1877 -- The Agricultural Labourer’s Vote, Pall Mall Gazette, 24 May 1877 -- Unequal Agriculture, Fraser’s Magazine, May 1877 -- The Prospects of Farming, Pall Mall Gazette 19, 23 July 1877 -- Milk Supply, Pall Mall Gazette, 26 December 1877 -- The State of Farming, St. James’s Gazette, August 1881 -- Steam on Common Roads, Standard, 13 September 1881 -- The Preservation of Game in England, St. James’s Gazette, 25 October 1881 -- The Beauty of the Fields, Magazine of Art, December 1881 -- The Wiltshire Labourer, Longman’s Magazine, November 1883 -- One of the New Voters, Manchester Guardian, 24, 31 January 1885 -- Appendices