Premium Members Get 10% Off and Earn Rewards Find Out More
Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections
Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of literary response to explore how race, class, and gender have both created and deconstructed England’s pastoral mythologies. In particular, the book argues that Black and British Asian writers have challenged narrow, nostalgic views of rural England but also expressed attachment to English landscapes and the natural world.
1139018657
Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections
Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of literary response to explore how race, class, and gender have both created and deconstructed England’s pastoral mythologies. In particular, the book argues that Black and British Asian writers have challenged narrow, nostalgic views of rural England but also expressed attachment to English landscapes and the natural world.
29.95 In Stock
Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections

Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections

by Corinne Fowler PhD
Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections
Add to Wishlist
Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections

Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England's Colonial Connections

by Corinne Fowler PhD

Overview

Green Unpleasant Land explores the countryside’s repressed colonial past and demonstrates its importance as a source of ideas about Englishness. The book presents historical evidence to show that rural England was a place of conflict and global expansion. It also examines four centuries of literary response to explore how race, class, and gender have both created and deconstructed England’s pastoral mythologies. In particular, the book argues that Black and British Asian writers have challenged narrow, nostalgic views of rural England but also expressed attachment to English landscapes and the natural world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845234829
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Publication date: 06/01/2021
Pages: 324
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Professor Corinne Fowler is a research expert at the University of Leicester, and is Director of Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted. Professor Fowler is an expert in the legacies of colonialism and postcolonialism to literature, heritage, and representations of British history. She co-founded and led the Centre for New Writing for 6 years, where she bought together writers and researchers to commission over 100 creative works.
From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Customer Reviews