Rural Scenes and National Representation
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Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot competed to claim the English countryside as ideological ground. No image of rural life produced consensus over the great questions: who should constitute the nation, and how should they be represented? Helsinger ponders how some images of rural life and land come to serve as national metaphors while others challenge their constructions of Englishness at the heart of the British Empire.Drawing on recent work in social history, nationalism, and geography, as well as the visual and literary arts, Helsinger recovers other possible and alternative readings of social ties embedded in the imagery of land. She reflects on the power of rural images to transfer local loyalties to the national scene, first popularizing then institutionalizing them. By turning a critical gaze on these scenes, she comments on the difference between art and ideology, and the problems and dangers of asserting any kind of national identity through imagery of the land.Originally published in 1996.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
כותר |
Rural Scenes and National Representation : Britain, 1815-1850 / Elizabeth K. Helsinger. |
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מהדורה |
Course Book. |
מוציא לאור |
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press |
שנה |
[2014] |
הערות |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Issued also in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. LAND AND THE NATION -- PART I. ICONS AND AUDIENCES -- ONE. CONSTABLE: THE MAKING OF A NATIONAL PAINTER -- TWO. OUT OF THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY: TENNYSON'S ENGLISH IDYLS -- PART II. CONTESTED GROUND -- THREE. COBBETT'S RADICAL HUSBANDRY -- FOUR. CLARE AND THE PLACE OF THE PEASANT POET -- FIVE. TURNER'S ENGLAND AND WALES -- SIX. BRONTE'S GHOSTS -- RETROSPECT. ELIOT'S RISKY HISTORY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
סדרה |
Literature in History |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations. |
שפה |
אנגלית |
שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2014 |
מספר מערכת |
997010711030905171 |
תצוגת MARC
תגיות
- Peasants in literature.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Landscape painting, British 19th century.
- National characteristics, British, in literature.
- Pastoral literature, English History and criticism.
- Art and literature Great Britain History 19th century.
- Literature and history Great Britain History 19th century.
- Rural conditions in literature.
- English literature 19th century History and criticism.
- British landscape painting
- nne Landscape in literature
- nne Peasantry in literature
- Great Britain Rural conditions.
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