Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

Uneasy neighbours?
Redaktion: Hammond, Mary; Sloan, Barry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century is a collection of 12 new essays, presented in four sections which highlight key examples of these rural/urban encounters. They explore the changing working practices, the impact of modernity, and different perceptions of social mobility, and examine how urban/rural negotiations were enacted in a range of different regional locations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134796830
• Artikelnr.: 45098568

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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