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Modernity and the English rural novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Head, Dominic (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Country life in literature.
Rural conditions in literature.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
English fiction.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The rural regional novel: the interwar vogue
  • "The everlasting land": farming and the novel
  • Rural primitivism: "Splendour in writing"
  • "The vanished world": the appeal of rural nostalgia
  • "A tugging at the heart": legacies of the rural tradition
  • Afterword.