The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, contributors examine complex rural-urban relationships of conflict and cooperation. The volume will be of interest to those researching society and politics, criminology, literature and demographics.
The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, contributors examine complex rural-urban relationships of conflict and cooperation. The volume will be of interest to those researching society and politics, criminology, literature and demographics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mary Hammond is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK, and founding Director of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research. Barry Sloan is Professor of English at the University of Southampton and a member of the Southampton Centre of Nineteenth-Century Research.
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Introduction Mary Hammond and Barry Sloan Sites of Rural-Urban Encounter 1. Lincoln's April Fair: Renegotiating Rural and Urban Relations in a small city, c. 1820-1910 Andrew Walker 2. Policing Brough Hill Fair, 1856-1910: Protecting Westmorland from Urban Criminals Guy Woolnough 3. Urban Unitarians vs. Rural Trinitarians: Town Liberals in a Planter Culture John A. Macaulay The Changing World of Work 4. Country Butchers and the City in the Exe Valley, 1840-1900 Julia Neville 5. Doncaster and its Environs: Town and Countryside - a Reciprocal Relationship? Sarah Holland 6. 'Following the Tools': Migration Networks among the Stone Workers of Purbeck in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Hinde and Michael Edgar The Impact of Modernity on Rural Life 7. 'Life in our Villages is practically no Life at all': Sketching the Rural-Urban Shift in Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Wales Michelle Deininger 8. The Early Popular Press and its Common Readers in Fin-de-Siècle Prague Jakub Machek 9. Reorienting the Piney Woods: Rural and Urban Change in South Mississippi, 1830-1910 Reagan Grimsley Social Mobility and Anxiety 10. The Urbanization of James Carter: Autobiography, Migration and the Rural-Urban Divide in Nineteenth-Century Britain Christopher Ferguson 11. Pip at the Fingerpost: Nineteenth-Century Urban-Rural Relations and the Reception of Dickens's Great Expectations, 1860-1885 Mary Hammond 12. Country Bumpkin or Backbone of the Nation?: the Urbanization of the Agricultural Labourer and the 'Unmanning' of the English in the later Nineteenth Century Barry Sloan
Introduction Mary Hammond and Barry Sloan Sites of Rural-Urban Encounter 1. Lincoln's April Fair: Renegotiating Rural and Urban Relations in a small city, c. 1820-1910 Andrew Walker 2. Policing Brough Hill Fair, 1856-1910: Protecting Westmorland from Urban Criminals Guy Woolnough 3. Urban Unitarians vs. Rural Trinitarians: Town Liberals in a Planter Culture John A. Macaulay The Changing World of Work 4. Country Butchers and the City in the Exe Valley, 1840-1900 Julia Neville 5. Doncaster and its Environs: Town and Countryside - a Reciprocal Relationship? Sarah Holland 6. 'Following the Tools': Migration Networks among the Stone Workers of Purbeck in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Hinde and Michael Edgar The Impact of Modernity on Rural Life 7. 'Life in our Villages is practically no Life at all': Sketching the Rural-Urban Shift in Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Wales Michelle Deininger 8. The Early Popular Press and its Common Readers in Fin-de-Siècle Prague Jakub Machek 9. Reorienting the Piney Woods: Rural and Urban Change in South Mississippi, 1830-1910 Reagan Grimsley Social Mobility and Anxiety 10. The Urbanization of James Carter: Autobiography, Migration and the Rural-Urban Divide in Nineteenth-Century Britain Christopher Ferguson 11. Pip at the Fingerpost: Nineteenth-Century Urban-Rural Relations and the Reception of Dickens's Great Expectations, 1860-1885 Mary Hammond 12. Country Bumpkin or Backbone of the Nation?: the Urbanization of the Agricultural Labourer and the 'Unmanning' of the English in the later Nineteenth Century Barry Sloan
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