Agriculture and the Land (eBook, PDF)

Richard Jefferies'' Essays and Letters
Redaktion: Welshman, Rebecca

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of articles and letters by Richard Jefferies on agriculture and social change This book brings together previously uncollected essays on the changing conditions of agriculture and rural life in the 1870s and 1880s. These items, many of which are unknown to researchers, were first published in leading periodicals of the time and offer new insight into the trajectory and timeframe of Jefferies' career. The material offers fresh perspectives on the economics and politics of agriculture, the condition of the agricultural labourer, the use of steam power, the land question, education and changing farming practices.Key FeaturesContains significant new material by Jefferies that is republished here for the first time since it appeared in the Victorian periodical pressOffers new material for research in the areas of Victorian literature, the environmental humanities, the history of agriculture and politics, and to those with interests in rural writingContains a number of newly attributed essays and letters

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474440905
• Artikelnr.: 72429568

Autorenporträt

Dr Rebecca Welshman is Honorary Fellow of a research centre for reading at the University of Liverpool. Her work was published in several key journals in Victorian studies and environmental humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Notes on Periodicals Drought and Water
Pall Mall Gazette
28 June 1870 Farmers at Bay
Pall Mall Gazette
8 February 1871 The Old Sporting Man
Pall Mall Gazette
1 February
1872 The County Franchise
Pall Mall Gazette
1 May 1872 The Rating of Personal Property
Standard
23 May
1872 The Poetry of Steam Ploughs
Graphic
5 October 1872 The Wiltshire Labourer
The Times
14 November 1872 Wiltshire Farmers and Labourers
The Times
27 November 1872 The Future of Farming
The Times
15 October 1873 The Farmer from his own Point of View
Pall Mall Gazette
23 April
1874 The Power of the Farmers
Fortnightly Review 1 June 1874 Patchwork Agriculture
Examiner
July 1875 The Cost of Agricultural Labour in 1875
Standard
1 October 1875 Local Taxation
Standard
29 December 1875 The Spirit of Modern Agriculture
New Quarterly Magazine
July 1876 Joint-stock Agriculture
Pall Mall Gazette
16 March 1877 The Landowners' Difficulties
Pall Mall Gazette
29 March 1877 The Agricultural Labourer's Vote
Pall Mall Gazette
24 May 1877 Unequal Agriculture
Fraser's Magazine
May 1877 The Prospects of Farming
Pall Mall Gazette 19
23 July 1877 Milk Supply
Pall Mall Gazette
26 December 1877 The State of Farming
St. James' Gazette
August 1881 Steam on Common Roads
Standard
13 September 1881 The Preservation of Game in England
St. James' Gazette
25 October
1881 The Beauty of the Fields
Magazine of Art
December 1881 The Wiltshire Labourer
Longmans Magazine
November 1883 One of the New Voters
Manchester Guardian
24
31 January 1885 Appendices