Green unpleasant land : creative responses to rural Britain's colonial connections /
Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside's repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of lite...
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Leeds, England :
Peepal Tree Press Ltd,
[2020].
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Empire, literature and rural England.
- ch. 1. Nation at the crossroads
- ch. 2. Green unpleasant land
- ch. 3. Pastoral
- ch. 4. Country houses
- ch. 5. Moorlands
- ch. 6. Plants, gardens and empire.
- Part two. Creative responses : the colonial countryside.