Title:
The English Countryside Representations, Identities, Mutations / edited by David Haigron.
Main Entry:
Haigron, David. editor.
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Publisher:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publication Date:
2017.
Publication Place:
Cham :
ISBN:
9783319532738
Subject:
Culture -- Study and teaching.
Ethnology -- Europe.
Motion pictures -- Great Britain.
Cultural heritage.
British literature.
Cultural and Media Studies.
British Culture.
British Cinema.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Heritage.
Contents:
1. Introduction - David Haigron -- 2. Part I: Rural Communities and Modernity: The English Countryside as an Invested Space - 2. Rural Protest in England - Brendan Prendiville -- 3. Agents, Beneficiaries and Victims: Picturing People on the Land - Jonathan Bignell & Jeremy Burchardt -- 4. Visions of Rurality in Popular British Fictional Television Series from the 1970s to the Present Day - Renée Dickason -- 5. Part II: Praised Harmony and Revealing Dissonance: The English Countryside as a Resonant Space - 5. Rural Landscape in Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Space and Robinson in Ruins - Georges Fournier -- 6. London’s Parks, Suburbs and Environs: The English Countryside through the Eyes of French Visitors (1814-1914) - Richard Tholoniat -- 7. Myths of “Old England” Revisited: Thomas Hardy’s Dissonant Representations of Rural Spaces in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Woodlanders - Thierry Goater -- 8. Going and Staying: Traditional Music in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy - Dennis Siler -- 9. Part III: Exploration and Meaning: The English Countryside as a Liminal Space - 9. “The Innocent Island”: A Language of Violence in Woolf and Bowen - Gregory Dekter -- 10. Rosamond Lehmann’s In-between Landscapes: Taking Possession of the “Empty Pastoral Scene” - Jessica Le Flem -- 11. Rural Sites: Transformations and Experiment in the Poetry of Mark Goodwin - Kerry Featherstone. .
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Printed edition: 9783319532721
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