Rural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much if not more than urban and suburban areas.
Rural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much if not more than urban and suburban areas.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kristin Bluemel is Professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University in New Jersey. She is the author of books on modernist Dorothy Richardson and intermodernist George Orwell; articles and chapters on regional and middlebrow writers; editor of Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain (EUP, 2011), and past editor of the journal The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 . Her work in progress examines interwar women wood engravers. Michael McCluskey is Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of York. Among his published articles are: 'Humphrey Jennings in the East End: Fires Were Started and Local Geographies' for London Journal, and 'The Postman's Daily Round: English Journeys in 1930s Documentary Film' for The Space Between, Literature and Culture 1914-1945 6.1 (2011): 105-23.
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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.
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.
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