Modernity and the English Rural Novel

by Dominic Head

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107039134
• ISBN13: 9781107039131
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"