Helsinger, Elizabeth K., 1943-

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

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.

x, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Literature in history

"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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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>
Landscape in literature
Peasantry in literature
Great Britain Rural conditions.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions rurales.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Great Britain Rural conditions Historiography.
Great Britain Rural conditions 19th century
Geschichte 1815-1850

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 191141
Cote: ID PR468.R87.H45; ID:97-B1124
Statut: Disponible