Romanticism and the Rural Community

by Simon J. White and Simon White

Book Overview

Romanticism and the Rural Community investigates the representation of the rural village and country town in a range of Romantic texts. The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in 1790s political polemic. This book considers works by Jane Austen, Robert Burns, John Clare and William Wordsworth, as well as less well-known writers (Robert Bloomfield,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137281782
• ISBN13: 9781137281784
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"