Author: George Sturt
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Lucy Bettesworth
Author: George Sturt
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Publisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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The Living Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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The Wheelwright's Shop
Author: George Sturt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521091954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
George Sturt's account of his trade as a wheelwright offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of late nineteenth century craftsmen. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521091954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
George Sturt's account of his trade as a wheelwright offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of late nineteenth century craftsmen. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Rural Tradition
Author: William J. Keith
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487586329
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
'There is probably no single quality or characteristic – besides love of the countryside – that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer,' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural writing that belongs to literature from that belonging to natural history, agricultural history, etc., is, as Richard E. Haymaker has observed, the writer's "means of revealing Nature as well as describing her"...In the final analysis the rural essayist paints neither landscapes nor self-portraits; instead he communicates the subtle relationship between himself and his environment, offering for our inspection his own attitudes and his own vision. We may be asked to look or to agree, but more than anything else we are invited to share. Ultimately, then, the best rural writing may be said to provide us, in a phrase adapted from Robert Langbaum, with a prose of experience.' Keith argues that non-fiction rural prose should be recognized as a distinct literary tradition that merits serious critical attention. In this book he tests the cogency of thinking in terms of a 'rural tradition,' examines the critical problems inherent in such writing, and traces significant continuities between rural writers. Eleven of the more important and influential writers from the seventeenth century to modern times come under individual scrutiny: Izaak Walton, Gilbert White, William Cobbett, Mary Russell Mitford, George Borrow, Richard Jefferies, George Sturt/'George Bourne', W.H. Hudson, Edward Thomas Williamson, and H.J. Massingham. In examining these writers within the context of the rural tradition, Keith rescues their works from the literary attic where they have too often been relegated as awkward misfits. When studied together, each throws fascinating light on the others and is seen to fit into a loose but nonetheless discernible 'line.'
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487586329
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
'There is probably no single quality or characteristic – besides love of the countryside – that must inevitably distinguish a rural writer,' notes W.J. Keith. However, 'what distinguishes rural writing that belongs to literature from that belonging to natural history, agricultural history, etc., is, as Richard E. Haymaker has observed, the writer's "means of revealing Nature as well as describing her"...In the final analysis the rural essayist paints neither landscapes nor self-portraits; instead he communicates the subtle relationship between himself and his environment, offering for our inspection his own attitudes and his own vision. We may be asked to look or to agree, but more than anything else we are invited to share. Ultimately, then, the best rural writing may be said to provide us, in a phrase adapted from Robert Langbaum, with a prose of experience.' Keith argues that non-fiction rural prose should be recognized as a distinct literary tradition that merits serious critical attention. In this book he tests the cogency of thinking in terms of a 'rural tradition,' examines the critical problems inherent in such writing, and traces significant continuities between rural writers. Eleven of the more important and influential writers from the seventeenth century to modern times come under individual scrutiny: Izaak Walton, Gilbert White, William Cobbett, Mary Russell Mitford, George Borrow, Richard Jefferies, George Sturt/'George Bourne', W.H. Hudson, Edward Thomas Williamson, and H.J. Massingham. In examining these writers within the context of the rural tradition, Keith rescues their works from the literary attic where they have too often been relegated as awkward misfits. When studied together, each throws fascinating light on the others and is seen to fit into a loose but nonetheless discernible 'line.'
Women of the Fields
Author: Karen Sayer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719041426
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Item "describes the work that women did in agriculture, as seen in the parliamentary reports of 1843, 1967 [sic., 1867] and the 1890s, and the meanings given to that work in the local and national press, farming advice books, autobiographies and the art and literature of the period" -- back cover.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719041426
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Item "describes the work that women did in agriculture, as seen in the parliamentary reports of 1843, 1967 [sic., 1867] and the 1890s, and the meanings given to that work in the local and national press, farming advice books, autobiographies and the art and literature of the period" -- back cover.
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920
Author: Charlotte Mathieson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131731882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The essays in this collection focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Contributors bring expertise from the fields of history, geography and literature to present an interdisciplinary study of the interplay between rural space and gender during a time of increasing industrialization and social change.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131731882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The essays in this collection focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Contributors bring expertise from the fields of history, geography and literature to present an interdisciplinary study of the interplay between rural space and gender during a time of increasing industrialization and social change.
Who's who
Author: Henry Robert Addison
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 2454
Book Description
An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 2454
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An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
The Nation
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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The Vanished Country Folk
Author: Richard Lawson Gales
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Poole's Index to Periodical Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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Languages : en
Pages : 742
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