Rural Modernity, Everyday Life and Visual Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138546738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

Rosemary Shirley

Opis

Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores ’the countryside’ as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its habitually urban focus, out into the English countryside. The rural is often portrayed as existing outside of modernity, or as its passive victim. Here, the rural is recast as an active and complex site of modernity, a shift which contributes alternative ways of thinking the rural and a new perspective on the everyday.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: beating the bounds; Speed and stillness: driving in the countryside; Keeping Britain tidy: litter and anxiety; The networked village: Women's Institute Golden Jubilee scrapbooks; Performing the village: festivals and folk art; Conclusion: limbo dancing; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Rosemary Shirley is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. She has contributed chapters to Affective Landscapes in Art Literature and Everyday Life (Edited by Christine Berberich, Neil Campbell and Robert Hudson, 2015) and Transforming the Countryside (Edited by Paul Brassley, Jeremy Burchardt and Karen Sayer 2016). Her research centres on everyday life and visual cultures in historical and contemporary rural contexts.