Modernity and the English Rural Novel

ISBN-13: 9781107039131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str.

Dominic Head

Opis

This book re-evaluates the rural English novel in the twentieth century in relation to the recognised artistic responses to modernity.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The rural regional novel: the interwar vogue; 2. 'The everlasting land': farming and the novel; 3. Rural primitivism: 'splendour in writing'; 4. 'The vanished world': the appeal of rural nostalgia; 5. 'A tugging at the heart': legacies of the rural tradition; Afterword.