UID:
almafu_9959797693102883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4744-5385-6
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1-4744-2097-4
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1-4744-2096-6
Series Statement:
Edinburgh scholarship online
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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Acknowledgements --
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Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain --
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Part I Networks --
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Chapter 1 Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy’s Communication Networks --
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Chapter 2 Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain --
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Chapter 3 Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century --
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Part II Landscapes --
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Chapter 4 Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity --
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Chapter 5 Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain --
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Chapter 6 Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the Wars --
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Part III Communities --
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Chapter 7 The ‘Uncertainty of Our Climate’: Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre --
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Chapter 8 The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction --
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Chapter 9 Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair --
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Part IV Heritage --
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Chapter 10 Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders --
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Chapter 11 Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis --
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Chapter 12 Celebrating England: ‘Heritage’ Writing and the Rural Novelist --
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Part V Wars --
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Chapter 13 Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime --
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Chapter 14 Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals --
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Chapter 15 Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Bibliography --
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Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-2095-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781474420969
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474420969
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474420969
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474420969
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474420969
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781474420969/type/BOOK
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