Rural Modernity in Britain (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Intervention
Redaktion: Bluemel, Kristin; McCluskey, Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and cultureRural 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. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced economic depression, the expansion of transportation and communication networks, the roll out of electricity, the loss of land, and the erosion of local identities. Who celebrated these changes? Who resisted them? Who documented them? Essays in this collection make the case that the rural means more than just the often-studied countryside of southern England, a retreat from the consequences of modernity; rather, the rural emerges as a source for new versions of the modern, with an active role in the formation and development of British experiences and representations of modernity.Key FeaturesIntrodues readers to concept of rural modernity that locates its critical intervention in fields of modernism and modernity studiesSplit into five sections addressing Networks, Landscapes, Communities, Heritage, and WarIncludes "e;In dialogue with"e; suggestions to guide readers across interdisciplinary contents of diverse chaptersContributors from England, Scotland, USA, New Zealand and Canada, representing fields of literature, art history, history, geography, and cultural studies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474420976
• Artikelnr.: 56521187

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.