This volume 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.
- ISBN10 0780358066
- ISBN13 9780780358065
- Publish Date 30 November 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint I.E.E.E.Press
- Edition 1999 ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 380
- Language English