The Country and the CityChatto and Windus, 1973 - 335 頁 Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward countryside. Examining literature since the sixteenth century, Williams traces the development of our conceptions of these two traditional poles of life. His groundbreaking study casts the country and city as central symbols for the social and economic changes associated with capitalist development. |
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I Country and City | 1 |
2 A Problem of Perspective | 9 |
Pastoral and CounterPastoral | 13 |
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abstracted Adam Bede agriculture become capitalism capitalist centre character characteristic Chawton civilisation Cobbett complicated connection consciousness contrast conventional country and city country-house course Crabbe crisis Daniel Deronda decisive Dickens dominant Eclogue economic eighteenth century Elizabeth Gaskell emphasis enclosure English experience farmers farming Felix Holt forms George Eliot Gilbert White Gissing green language Hardy Hardy's Hesiod houses human Ibid idea idealisation improvement industrial isolated Jane Austen kind labourers land landowners landscape literary literature living London look mode moral movement natural neo-pastoral nineteenth century novel observation organisation pastoral Penshurst persistent physical poem political poor production relations relationships rural England Saxham seen sense settlement significant social society Stephen Duck streets structure of feeling T. S. Eliot tenant Theocritus Thomas Hardy town trade traditional urban village vision whole Wordsworth writing