The Invention of the Countryside

Hunting, Walking and Ecology in English Literature, 1671–1831

Donna Landry (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

306 Seiten

2001 | 1st ed. 2001
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-42729-1 (ISBN)

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Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671 and its repeal in 1831, writers on walking and hunting often held opposed views, but contributed equally to the origins of modern ecology, while sharing a commitment to trespass that preserved common rights in an era of growing privatization.

DONNA LANDRY is Professor of English at Wayne State University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her publications include, as author, The Muses of Resistance: Labouring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796 and, with Gerald MacLean, she is co-author of Materialist Feminisms.

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Inventing the Countryside: An Introduction PART I: FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRYSIDE The Greenness of Hunting Land, and Writing about Land Game and the Poacher The Sporting Life Origins of the Anti-Hunting Campaign PART II: HUNTING A COUNTRY Sportswomen Pleasures of the Chase circa 1735 to circa 1830 The Pleasures of Surtees PART III: WALKING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE The Pleasures of Perambulation 'This Lime-Tree Bower' as Walking Poem Dartmoor Visible Endnotes Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.08.2016
Zusatzinfo	XX, 306 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Medizin / Pharmazie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-349-42729-2 / 1349427292
ISBN-13	978-1-349-42729-1 / 9781349427291
Zustand	Neuware