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The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

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Editors:
  1. Stephen Bending

    1. University of Southampton, UK

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  2. Andrew McRae

    1. University of Exeter, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxiv
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  2. Feudalism and Beyond: the Anxiety of Change

    • Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae
    Pages 1-31

  3. The Discovery of Landscape

    • Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae
    Pages 32-62

  4. The Country House

    • Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae
    Pages 63-93

  5. Merry England: Property, Pastoral and Rural Pleasures

    • Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae
    Pages 94-121

  6. The Georgic Imperative: Labour, Thrift, Improvement

    • Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae
    Pages 122-144

  7. Property and Oppression: Voices from the Margins

    • Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae
    Pages 145-178

  8. Gardens: Public and Private Pleasures

    • Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae
    Pages 179-205

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 206-276
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About this book

The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southampton, UK

    Stephen Bending

  • University of Exeter, UK

    Andrew McRae

About the editors

STEPHEN BENDING is the co-editor of Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling and of Tracing Architectures, c. 1700-1840. He has published numerous articles on eighteenth-century gardens and landscape, and is currently working on a study of women gardeners in the eighteenth century. He is a lecturer at the University of Southampton.

ANDREW MCRAE is the author of God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (1996), Renaissance Drama (2003), and Satire and the Early Stuart State (2003). He has published numerous articles on literature and cultural history, and is currently writing a book on domestic travel in early modern Britain. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

  • Editors: Stephen Bending, Andrew McRae

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508255

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-1276-3Published: 12 August 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51138-9Published: 01 January 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50825-5Published: 12 August 2003

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXIV, 276

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Cultural History, Literature, general

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