• Rural Modernity in Britain: Introduction by Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey

    Author(s):
    Kristin Bluemel (see profile) , Michael McCluskey
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone, TM Literary Criticism
    Subject(s):
    Art, History, Cultural geography, Motion pictures and history, Culture--Study and teaching, Labor literature, Feminist criticism
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Britishness, War Studies, Art history, Film and history, Literary criticism, Cultural studies, Working-class literature, Visual culture
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/maq2-bm34
    Abstract:
    This is the Introduction to Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention (Edinburgh UP, October 2018), which argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much - if not more - than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced economic depression, the expansion of transportation and communication networks, the roll out of electricity, the loss of land, and the erosion of local identities. Who celebrated these changes? Who resisted them? Who documented them? The Introduction maps the theoretical and historical terrain upon which the chapters rest. Essays in this collection treat film, illustration, painting, commercial print objects, architecture, murals, textiles, pageants, radio, and literature, among other subjects. Together, they make the case that the rural means more than just the often-studied countryside of southern England, a retreat from the consequences of modernity; rather, the rural emerges as a source for new versions of the modern, with an active role in the formation and development of British experiences and representations of modernity.
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    Publisher:
    Edinburgh UP
    Pub. Date:
    October 2018
    Book Title:
    Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention
    Author/Editor:
    Ed. Kristin Bluemel and Michael McCluskey
    Chapter:
    Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain
    Page Range:
    1 - 16
    ISBN:
    978-1-4744-2095-2
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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