Gender and space in rural Britain, 1840-1920

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Gender and space in rural Britain, 1840-1920

Essays focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Issues of national versus regional identity, class, gender and sexuality are discussed. --from publisher's description.

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Publisher
Routledge
Language
English
Pages
194

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Cover of: Gender and space in rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and space in rural Britain, 1840-1920
2016, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
in English

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Table of Contents

1. Women in the field / Roger Ebbatson
2. 'Between two civilizations' : George Sturt's constructions of loss and change in village life / Barry Sloan
3. At work and at play : Charles Lee's Cynthia in the West / Gemma Goodman
4. 'Going out, going alone' : modern subjectivities in rural Scotland, 1900-21 / Samantha Walton
5. 'Drowned lands' : Charles Kingsley's Hereward the wake and the masculation of the English fens / Lynsey McCulloch
6. 'Wandering like a wild thing' : rurality, women and walking in George Eliot's Adam Bede and The mill on the floss / Charlotte Mathieson
7. 'I never liked long walks' : gender, nature and Jane Eyre's rural wandering / Katherine F. Montgomery
8. Gertrude Jekyll : cultivating the gendered space of the Victorian Garden for professional success / Christen Ericsson-Penfold
9. From England to Eden : gardens, gender and knowledge in Virginia Woolf's The voyage out / Karina Jakubowicz
10. The transnational rural in Alicia Little's My diary in a Chinese farm / Eliza S.K. Leong.

Edition Notes

Originally published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Abingdon, Oxon
Series
Warwick series in the humanities -- no. 3, Warwick series in the humanities -- no. 3.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.30941, 305.30941
Library of Congress
HQ1075.5.G7 G46 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource (x, 194 pages)
Number of pages
194

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL44079877M
ISBN 10
1315654350
ISBN 13
9781315654355
OCLC/WorldCat
958107778

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL21054604W

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