Rural scenes and national representation: Britain, 1815 - 1850

"Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite their nostalgic appeal, Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes recorded the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years afte...

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Main Author: Helsinger, Elizabeth K. 1943- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 1997
Series:Literature in history
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Summary:"Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite their nostalgic appeal, Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes recorded the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily Bronte, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:X, 290 S., [8] Bl. Ill.
ISBN:0691021465

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