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<p>Elizabeth Helsinger's iconoclastic book explores the peculiar power of rural England to stand for conflicting ideas of Britain. Despite the nostalgic appeal of Constable's or Tennyson's rural scenes, they record the severe social and economic disturbances of the turbulent years after Waterloo. Artists and writers like Cobbett, Clare, Turner, Emily Brontë, and George Eliot competed to claim the English countryside as ideological ground. No image of rural life produced consensus over the great

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Author

Elizabeth Kramer Helsinger

Publisher

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691608501

Category

literary studies

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25