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

ISBN-13: 9780521524667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 352 str.

Andrew McRae; Lyndal Roper

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.