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Klappentext A revisionist interdisciplinary study of the transformation of England into an imperial power between 1550 and 1850. Zusammenfassung Between 1550 and 1850! the English people remade themselves! from a disparate group of individuals and localities into an imperial power. This collection of essays by major scholars supplements Raymond Williams' seminal work on the country and the city by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on this unique transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and notes on the text; 1. Introduction: the country and the city revisited, c.1550-1850 Gerald MacLean, Donna Landry and Joseph P. Ward; 2. Imagining the metropolis in Elizabethan and Stuart London Joseph P. Ward; 3. The peripatetic muse: internal travel and the cultural production of space in pre-revolutionary England Andrew McRae; 4. The Cookes and the Brookes: uses of portraiture in town and country before the Civil War Robert Tittler; 5. Digger writing and rural dissent in the English Revolution: representing England as a common treasury David Loewenstein; 6. 'Gulfes, Deserts, Precipices, Stone': Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House' and the contradictions of 'nature' Robert Markley; 7. Enthusiasm and Enlightenment: of food, filth and slavery Nigel Smith; 8. 'What is the country?': patriotism and the language of popularity during the English militia reform of 1757 Eliga Gould; 9. Who's making the scene? Real people in eighteenth-century topographical prints Richard Quaintance; 10. Imperial georgic, 1660-1789 Karen O'Brien; 11. The gentleman planter and the metropole: Long's History of Jamaica (1774) Elizabeth A. Bohls; 12. Crown forests and female georgic: Frances Burney and the reconstruction of Britishness Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook; 13. 'Wild outcasts of society': the transit of the Gypsies in Romantic period poetry Anne F. Janowitz; 14. Afterword: moving stories, still lives John Barrell; Index....
