Format:
1 Online-Ressource (pages)
ISBN:
9789004273948
Series Statement:
Studies in critical social sciences v. 64
Content:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Cultural Struggle ‘From Below’ -- Cultural Struggle ‘From Above’ -- Development Caught between Tradition and Modernity -- Horror, Humour, Fiends and Fools -- Best of Friends, or Worst of Enemies? -- The Grand Tour, or from Cosmopolitanism to Nationalism -- Mass Tourism, or the Mob-in-the-Streets Travels Abroad -- Venice – Being There -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Author Index.
Content:
Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004259973
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014 ISBN 9789004259973
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004273948
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