Rural scenes and national representation : Britain, 1815-1850 / Elizabeth K. Helsinger.

Main entry:

Helsinger, Elizabeth K., 1943-

Title & Author:

Rural scenes and national representation : Britain, 1815-1850 / Elizabeth K. Helsinger.

Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.

Description:

x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Literature in history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Land and the Nation -- Ch. 1. Constable: The Making of a National Painter -- Ch. 2. Out of the Heart of the Country: Tennyson's English Idyls -- Ch. 3. Cobbett's Radical Husbandry -- Ch. 4. Clare and the Place of the Peasant Poet -- Ch. 5. Turner's England and Wales -- Ch. 6. Bronte's Ghosts -- Ch. 7. Eliot's Risky History.
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Summary:

"Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite their nostalgic appeal, Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes recorded the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily Bronte, and George Eliot competed to claim the English countryside as ideological ground. No image of rural life produced consensus over the great questions: who should constitute the nation, and how should they be represented? Helsinger ponders how some images of rural life and land come to serve as national metaphors while others challenge their constructions of Englishness at the heart of the British Empire."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

0691021465 (cl ; alk. paper)
9780691021461 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Constable, John, 1776-1837.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
English literature 19th century History and criticism.
Rural conditions in literature.
Literature and history Great Britain History 19th century.
Art and literature Great Britain History 19th century.
Pastoral literature, English History and criticism.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Landscape painting, British 19th century.
Landscapes in literature.
Peasants in literature.
Littérature anglaise 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Conditions rurales dans la littérature.
Littérature et histoire Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Art et littérature Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Littérature pastorale anglaise Histoire et critique.
Britanniques dans la littérature.
Peinture de paysages britannique 19e siècle.
Paysages dans la littérature.
Paysans dans la littérature.
Art and literature
English literature
Landscape painting, British
Literature and history
Pastoral literature, English
Rural conditions
Landschaftsmalerei
Literatur
Landschaft
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Kunst.
Landschapschilderkunst.
Platteland.
Herdersliteratuur.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
Landscape painting, English 19th century.
Landscape painting 19th century Great Britain.
Landschaft <Motiv>
Great Britain Rural conditions.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions rurales.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Great Britain Rural conditions Historiography.
Geschichte 1815-1850
Great Britain Rural conditions 19th century
Landscape in literature

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Added entries:

Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191141
Call No.: ID PR468.R87.H45; ID:97-B1124
Status: Available

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