Class, culture and the agrarian myth / / by Tom Brass

• Autore: Brass Tom <1946->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/633
• Soggetto topico: Peasants - Social conditions; Rural conditions; Social classes; Culture conflict - Political aspects; Culture conflict in motion pictures; Culture conflict in literature; Travel writing - History; Agriculture and politics; Agriculture - Economic aspects; Capitalism - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Part 1. Culture, tradition and modernity -- Part 2. Screen images of rural struggle -- Part 3. Culture, class struggle and travel.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Class, culture and the agrarian myth
• ISBN: 90-04-27394-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828026303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in critical social sciences ; ; Volume 64.