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Rural Modernity in Britain : a Critical Intervention /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2018.
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| Colección: | Edinburgh scholarship online.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Rural Modernity in Britain; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain; Part I Networks; 1 Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy's Communication Networks; 2 Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain; 3 Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century; Part II Landscapes; 4 Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity; 5 Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain.
- 6 Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the WarsPart III Communities; 7 The 'Uncertainty of Our Climate': Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre; 8 The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural; 9 Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair; PLATES; Part IV Heritage; 10 Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders; 11 Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis; 12 Celebrating England: 'Heritage' Writing and the Rural Novelist; Part V Wars.
- 13 Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime14 Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals; 15 Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B.T. Batsford; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index; Bookmark 2.