{"product_id":"rural-scenes-and-national-representation-9780691608501","title":"Rural Scenes and National Representation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Helsinger's discussions of images and texts offer new and important insights into the political and cultural uses of the countryside, and they will essential reading for anyone interested in that history of this period. While it is impossible to do justice to the scope, interest, and nuance of her arguments, this review must suffice to say that this is the kind of book students of British landscape painting and literature will turn to again and again with pleasure and profit.\"--Albion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi  INTRODUCTION Land and the Nation 3  PART I: ICONS AND AUDIENCES  CHAPTER ONE Constable: The Making of a National Painter 41  CHAPTER TWO Out of the Heart of the Country: Tennyson's English Idyls 65  PART II: CONTESTED GROUND  CHAPTER THREE Cobbett's Radical Husbandry 103  CHAPTER FOUR Clare and the Place of the Peasant Poet 141  CHAPTER FIVE Turner's England and Wales 162  CHAPTER SIX Bronte's Ghosts 175  RETROSPECT Eliot's Risky History 217  NOTES 239  INDEX 283","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403950793047,"sku":"9780691608501","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691608501.jpg?v=1730484977","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rural-scenes-and-national-representation-9780691608501","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}