God Speed the Plough - The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660

Zusammenfassung An analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England! which examines a wide range of source material concerned to present a fresh view of the processes of change in rural England. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Versions of Moral Economy: 1. Covetousness in the countryside: agrarian complaint and mid-Tudor reform; 2. Moral economics and the Tudor-Stuart Church; 3. The rural vision of Renaissance satire; 4. Agrarian communism; Part II. Imperatives of Improvement: 5. Husbandry manuals and agrarian improvement; 6. 'To know one's own': the discourse of the estate surveyor; 7. Georgic economics; Part III. The Profits and Pleasures of the Land: 8. Chorography: the view from the gentleman's seat; 9. Rural poetics; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew McRae, Andrew (University of Leeds) Mcrae
• Assisted by: Lyndal Roper (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521524667
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52466-7
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 220 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Past and Present Publications; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book