Organised into sections on society, culture, politics and the economy, and embracing subjects as diverse as women novelists and village crafts, this book argues

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This collection of essays examines representations of the English countryside and its mutations, and what they reveal about a nation’s, communities’ or indi

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