Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention

ISBN-13: 9781474420952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 328 str.

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List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain, Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey; Part I: Networks; 1. Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy’s Communication Networks, Edward Allen; 2. Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain, Michael McCluskey; 3. Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century, Rosemary Shirley; Part II: Landscapes; 4. Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity, Samuel Shaw; 5. Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain, Kristin Bluemel; 6. Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the Wars, Christopher Hopkins; Part III: Communities; 7. The ‘Uncertainty of Our Climate’: Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre, Andrew Walker; 8. The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction, Stella Deen; 9. Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scot’s Quair, Nick Hubble; Part IV: Heritage; 10. Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders, Ysanne Holt; 11. Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis, Nigel Harrison and Iain Robertson; 12. Celebrating England: ‘Heritage’ Writing and the Rural Novelist, Dominic Head; Part V: Wars; 13. Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime, Eluned Summers-Bremner; 14. Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals, Hana Leaper and Polly Mills; 15. Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford , Peter Lowe; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.