The Country and the City Revisited: England and the Politics of Culture, 1550-1850 - Brossura

MacLean, Gerald

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ISBN 10: 052103227X ISBN 13: 9780521032278

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Riassunto

Between 1550 and 1850, the great age of mercantilism, the English people remade themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities divided by feudal loyalties, dialects and even languages, into an imperial power. Examining literature, art and social life, and returning to ground first explored by Raymond Williams in his seminal work, The Country and the City Revisited traces this transformation. It shows that what Williams figured as an urban-rural dichotomy can now be more satisfactorily grasped as a permeable boundary. While the movement of sugar, tobacco and tea became ever more deeply interfused with the movement of people, through migration and the slave trade, these commodities initiated new conceptions of space, time and identity. Spanning the traditional periods of the Renaissance and Romanticism, this collection of essays offers exciting interdisciplinary perspectives on central issues of early modern English history.

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Recensione:

"In identifying the culture of setting as a shared window onto awareness and experience in former times, all the contributors point to a very promising framework in which a refreshingly interdisciplinary enterprise of British studies could evolve." Carl B. Estabrook, Albion

Descrizione del libro:

Between 1550 and 1850, the English people remade themselves, from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power. This collection of essays by major scholars supplements Raymond Williams' seminal work on the country and the city by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on this unique transformation.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 052103227X
• ISBN 13: 9780521032278
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 276