rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Green unpleasant land
    sub title: creative responses to rural Britain's colonial connections
  name:
    name part: Fowler, Corinne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 324 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside's repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of literary response to explore how race, class and gender have both created and deconstructed England's pastoral mythologies. In particular, the book argues that Black and British Asian writers have challenged narrow, nostalgic views of rural England but also expressed attachment to English landscapes and the natural world. The book questions the countryside's reputation as a retreat from urban life. It interrogates the idea that country houses are models for civilized living or that moorlands are places of freedom. It presents new perspectives on the "English" flora and fauna that feature in literature, parks, allotments and suburban gardens. The book reconsiders a range of rural locations through the lens of British colonial involvement, including East India Company activity and the slavery business. The book connects England's outward-reaching histories to what was happening in the countryside, the enclosure of common land, the beginnings of industrial mass farming and the reshaping of landownership through imperial profits. In bringing together histories usually separated by the Atlantic, Green Unpleasant Land makes connections, for instance, between the rebellion of enslaved people for their freedom in Jamaica in 1831, and the struggles of English agricultural workers in the Captain Swing uprising of the same year. But Green Unpleasant Land is more than an academic study, accessibly written as it is, because it contains a section of Corinne Fowler's own stories and poems written in response to the research she has undertaken and the material objects she has encountered. It is a personal story, too, of her own family relationship to transatlantic enslavement. Green Unpleasant La…
  table of contents: Part one. Empire, literature and rural England. -- ch. 1. Nation at the crossroads -- ch. 2. Green unpleasant land -- ch. 3. Pastoral -- ch. 4. Country houses -- ch. 5. Moorlands -- ch. 6. Plants, gardens and empire. -- Part two. Creative responses : the colonial countryside.
  note: Corinne Fowler.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    topic: Country life in literature
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism in literature
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Pastoral literature, English
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN56.C686 F69 2020
  identifier: 1845234820
  identifier: 9781845234829
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200405
    record change date: 20220207154606.4
    record identifier: in00004549724