God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500 1660

ISBN-13: 9780521453790 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 352 str.

Andrew McCrae; Andrew McRae

Opis

This book presents a fresh view of crucial processes of change, offering through an interdisciplinary analysis fresh insights into both the history and literature of the land in early modern England. It examines a wide range of source material concerned with the practices and values of rural England--sermons, pamphlets, satiric verse and drama, husbandry and surveying manuals, chorographic texts, and rural poetry. It traces important developments in patterns of representation, which at once parallel and promote the nation's shift toward modern standards of individualism and mercantilism.

Recenzje

"This important interdisciplinary work examines literary representations of the English rural landscape and its economy and society in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrew McRae's book differs from many contributions to the `new historicism' in literary criticism in its treatment of an impressive array of printed sources drawn from a variety of genres, a literature McRae explores to uncover the dynamics of an agrarian discourse." Dan Beaver, Albion

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Versions of Moral Economy: 1. Covetousness in the countryside: agrarian complaint and mid-Tudor reform; 2. Moral economics and the Tudor-Stuart Church; 3. The rural vision of Renaissance satire; 4. Agrarian communism; Part II. Imperatives of Improvement: 5. Husbandry manuals and agrarian improvement; 6. 'To know one's own': the discourse of the estate surveyor; 7. Georgic economics; Part III. The Profits and Pleasures of the Land: 8. Chorography: the view from the gentleman's seat; 9. Rural poetics; Bibliography.