Rural Modernity in Britain : A Critical Intervention

Bluemel, Kristin (EDT)/ McCluskey, Michael (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2018/10発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2018/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 328 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474420952
• DDC分類 820.900912

Full Description

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and culture
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. 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 Features
Introdues 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 "In dialogue with" 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

Contents

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