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Modernity and the English Rural Novel
Dominic Head
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Description for Modernity and the English Rural Novel
hardcover. This book re-evaluates the rural English novel in the twentieth century in relation to the recognised artistic responses to modernity. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
This book examines the persistence of the rural tradition in the English novel into the twentieth century. In the shadow of metropolitan literary culture, rural writing can seem to strive for a fantasy version of England with no compelling social or historical relevance. Dominic Head argues that the apparent disconnection is, in itself, a response to modernity rather than a refusal to engage with it, and that the important writers in this tradition have had a significant bearing on the trajectory of English cultural life through the twentieth century. At the heart of the discussion is the English rural regional ... Read more
This book examines the persistence of the rural tradition in the English novel into the twentieth century. In the shadow of metropolitan literary culture, rural writing can seem to strive for a fantasy version of England with no compelling social or historical relevance. Dominic Head argues that the apparent disconnection is, in itself, a response to modernity rather than a refusal to engage with it, and that the important writers in this tradition have had a significant bearing on the trajectory of English cultural life through the twentieth century. At the heart of the discussion is the English rural regional ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
222
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107039131
SKU
V9781107039131
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99-20
About Dominic Head
Dominic Head is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Nottingham, where he served as Head of School from 2007-10. He has written extensively on twentieth-century and contemporary literature and is the author of eight monographs, including The Modernist Short Story (Cambridge, 1992), Ian McEwan (2007) and The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950-2000 (Cambridge, 2002). He ... Read more
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