The Country and the CityAs a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture. |
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用戶評語 - stillatim - LibraryThingA great mix of literary criticism - his readings of G. Eliot and Dickens are particularly impressive - history and political agitation. Williams starts with a discussion of the pastoral mode, which is ... 閱讀評論全文
Review: The Country and the City
用戶評語 - Chris - GoodreadsAn exceptional history of power, society, money and aesthetics. Fascinating and engaging. 閱讀評論全文
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Country and City | 1 |
A Problem of Perspective | 9 |
Pastoral and CounterPastoral | 13 |
Golden Ages | 35 |
Town and Country | 46 |
Their Destiny their Choice | 55 |
The Morality of Improvement | 60 |
Natures Threads | 68 |
Knowable Communities | 165 |
The Shadowed Country | 182 |
Wessex and the Border | 197 |
Cities of Darkness and of Light | 215 |
The Figure in the City | 233 |
Surviving Countrymen | 248 |
The Border Again | 264 |
The City and the Future | 272 |
Bred to Till the Earth | 87 |
Enclosures Commons and Communities | 96 |
Three around Farnham | 108 |
Pleasing Prospects | 120 |
The Green Language | 127 |
Change in the City | 142 |
People of the City | 153 |
The New Metropolis | 279 |
Cities and Countries | 289 |
Appendix | 307 |
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