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The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

By:S. Bending; ‎A. McRae
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403912763
eText ISBN:9780230508255
Edition:1
Copyright:2003
Format:Page Fidelity

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The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labour. By drawing on both canonical and marginal texts, it argues that early-modern writing not only reflected but played a part in constructing the cultural meanings of the English countryside with which we continue to live.