Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

The Writing of Rural England 1500-1800documents and contextualizes the conflicting representations of rural life during a crucial period of social, economic and cultural change. It highlights the dialogues and tensions between agriculture and aesthetics, economics and morality, men and women, leisure and labor. By drawing on both canonical and marginal texts, it argues that early-modern writing not only reflected but played a part in constructing the cultural meanings of the English countryside with which we continue to live.Bending, Stephen is the author of 'Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800', published 2003 under ISBN 9781403912763 and ISBN 1403912769.