Paradise Lost : Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800.
Title:
Paradise Lost : Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800.
Author:
Burchardt, Jeremy.
ISBN:
9780857715531
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (245 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Industrialization and Urbanization -- Chapter 2 Literature and the Countryside, c.1800 to c.1870 -- Chapter 3 Radicalism and the Land, c.1790 to c.1850 -- Chapter 4 Gardens, Allotments and Parks -- Chapter 5 Model Villages and Garden Cities -- Chapter 6 Literary Attitudes to the Countryside in the Later Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Chapter 7 Land Reform After 1850 -- Chapter 8 Preservationism, 'Englishness' and the Rise of Planning, c.1880-1939 -- Chapter 9 The Economic Consequences of Rural Nostalgia -- Chapter 10 Rambling -- Chapter 11 The Organic Movement Before and During the Second World War -- Chapter 12 Rural Reconstruction Between the Wars -- Chapter 13 Rural Change and the Legislative Framework, 1939 to 2000 -- Chapter 14 Agriculture and the Environment -- Chapter 15 Recreation in the Countryside Since the Second World War -- Chapter 16 Intra-village Social Change and Attitudinal Conflict in the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 17 Town, Country and Politics at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
The British countryside is in crisis: tensions have never been greater between town and country; between the conflicting needs of farming and the environment; and between a government seen as anti-countryside and the disillusioned majority that inhabit it. But how has the land, so fundamental to the fabric of British life, become such a charged issue? The 'Town versus Countryside' debate has never been more urgent and it lies at the root of modern British political, economic, social, and cultural life. Jeremy Burchardt here provides a significant contribution to that debate and demonstrates that we cannot address it without understanding how attitudes to the countryside have developed over the last two hundred years. In so doing, his sweeping cultural history asks whether the rural idyll that many imagine is in fact an artificial confection - a myth encouraged by writers like Thomas Hardy and DH Lawrence - and reinforced by bodies that aim to promote the land, including The National Trust.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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