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Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815-1850
Elizabeth K. Helsinger
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Description for Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815-1850
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691608501
SKU
V9780691608501
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Reviews for Rural Scenes and National Representation: Britain, 1815-1850
Helsinger's discussions of images and texts offer new and important insights into the political and cultural uses of the countryside, and they will essential reading for anyone interested in that history of this period. While it is impossible to do justice to the scope, interest, and nuance of her arguments, this review must suffice to say that this is the ... Read more