LEADER 04066nam 22006135 450 001 9910255096403321 005 20240701121208.0 010 $a9783319532738 010 $a3319532731 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-53273-8 035 $a(CKB)3780000000451236 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4944174 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-53273-8 035 $a(Perlego)3497043 035 $a(EXLCZ)993780000000451236 100 $a20170811d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe English Countryside $eRepresentations, Identities, Mutations /$fedited by David Haigron 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) $cillustrations, tables 311 08$a9783319532721 311 08$a3319532723 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Introduction - David Haigron -- 2. Part I: Rural Communities and Modernity: The English Countryside as an Invested Space - 2. Rural Protest in England - Brendan Prendiville -- 3. Agents, Beneficiaries and Victims: Picturing People on the Land - Jonathan Bignell & Jeremy Burchardt -- 4. Visions of Rurality in Popular British Fictional Television Series from the 1970s to the Present Day - Renée Dickason -- 5. Part II: Praised Harmony and Revealing Dissonance: The English Countryside as a Resonant Space - 5. Rural Landscape in Patrick Keiller's Robinson in Space and Robinson in Ruins - Georges Fournier -- 6. London's Parks, Suburbs and Environs: The English Countryside through the Eyes of French Visitors (1814-1914) - Richard Tholoniat -- 7. Myths of "Old England" Revisited: Thomas Hardy's Dissonant Representations of Rural Spaces in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Woodlanders - Thierry Goater -- 8. Going and Staying: Traditional Music in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy - Dennis Siler -- 9. Part III: Exploration and Meaning: The English Countryside as a Liminal Space - 9. "The Innocent Island": A Language of Violence in Woolf and Bowen - Gregory Dekter -- 10. Rosamond Lehmann's In-between Landscapes: Taking Possession of the "Empty Pastoral Scene" - Jessica Le Flem -- 11. Rural Sites: Transformations and Experiment in the Poetry of Mark Goodwin - Kerry Featherstone. . 330 $aThis collection of essays examines representations of the English countryside and its mutations, and what they reveal about a nation's, communities' or individuals' search for identity - and fear of losing it. Based on a pluridisciplinary approach and a variety of media, this book challenges the view that the English countryside is an apolitical space characterised by permanence and lack of conflict. It analyses how the pastoral motif is actually subverted to explore liminal spaces and temporalities. The authors deconstruct the "rural idyll" myth to show how it plays a distinctive and yet ambiguous part in defining Englishness/Britishness. A must read for both scholars and students interested in British rural and cultural history, media and literature. 606 $aEthnology$zGreat Britain 606 $aCulture 606 $aMotion pictures$zGreat Britain 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aCultural property 606 $aBritish Culture 606 $aBritish Film and TV 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aCultural Heritage 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aCultural property. 615 14$aBritish Culture. 615 24$aBritish Film and TV. 615 24$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aCultural Heritage. 676 $a809.9332 702 $aHaigron$b David$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255096403321 996 $aThe English Countryside$92220954 997 $aUNINA