The English countryside : representations, identities, mutations /: representations, identities, mutations. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Haigron, editor.
• Editors: Haigron, David
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.9332; Landscapes in literature; Landscapes -- England; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Landscapes; Landscapes in literature; Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Films, cinema; Literature: history & criticism; Cultural studies; British literature; Cultural heritage; Social Science -- General; England; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319532738; 3319532731
• Related ISBNs: 3319532723; 9783319532721
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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