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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain
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Chapter 1 Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy’s Communication Networks -
Chapter 2 Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain -
Chapter 3 Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century -
Chapter 4 Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity -
Chapter 5 Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain -
Chapter 6 Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the Wars -
Chapter 7 The ‘Uncertainty of Our Climate’: Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre -
Chapter 8 The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction -
Chapter 9 Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair -
Chapter 10 Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders -
Chapter 11 Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis -
Chapter 12 Celebrating England: ‘Heritage’ Writing and the Rural Novelist -
Chapter 13 Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime -
Chapter 14 Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals -
Chapter 15 Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford - Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
Title Pages
Title Pages
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- Rural Modernity in Britain
- Author(s):
- Kristin Bluemel, Michael McCluskey
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
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- Title Pages
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain
-
Chapter 1 Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy’s Communication Networks -
Chapter 2 Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain -
Chapter 3 Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century -
Chapter 4 Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity -
Chapter 5 Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain -
Chapter 6 Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the Wars -
Chapter 7 The ‘Uncertainty of Our Climate’: Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre -
Chapter 8 The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction -
Chapter 9 Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair -
Chapter 10 Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders -
Chapter 11 Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis -
Chapter 12 Celebrating England: ‘Heritage’ Writing and the Rural Novelist -
Chapter 13 Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime -
Chapter 14 Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals -
Chapter 15 Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford - Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index
