Andrew Mcrae

God Speed the Plough

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 497g
• ISBN-13: 9780521524667
• ISBN-10: 0521524660
• Artikelnr.: 21832933

Inhaltsangabe

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.