Modernity and the English Rural Novel

Modernity and the English Rural Novel

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Head, Dominic
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9781108157964
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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 novel of the 1920s and 1930s, which reveals significant points of overlap with mainstream literary culture and the legacies of modernism. Rural writers refashioned the conventions of the tradition and the effects of literary nostalgia, to produce the swansong of a fading genre with resonances that are still relevant today.
EAN 9781108157964
ISBN 1108157963
Binding Ebook
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date April 7, 2017
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Head, Dominic
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