"Between Two Civilizations": George Sturt's Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life
"Between Two Civilizations": George Sturt's Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life
The chapter examines the themes of loss and change in rural village life. Focusing on George Sturt's Change in the Village (1912), as well as Sturt's journals, A Wiltshire Village by Alfred Williams (1912), and Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (1939-43), it looks at the experience of being 'between two civilizations' in these writings. The chapter identifies the ongoing perseverance of the theme of modernity and change as a key motif in rural representation, extending from the 19th-century worlds depicted in these works and persisting into the 20th-century as an enduring concept of the period.
978 1 84893 440 5
25-40
Sloan, Barry
4192a9d4-0959-4e09-b22a-e98c0436da24
January 2014
Sloan, Barry
4192a9d4-0959-4e09-b22a-e98c0436da24
Sloan, Barry
(2014)
"Between Two Civilizations": George Sturt's Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life.
In,
Goodman, Gemma and Mathieson, Charlotte
(eds.)
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840-1920.
(Warwick Series in the Humanities, 3)
Pickering & Chatto, .
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The chapter examines the themes of loss and change in rural village life. Focusing on George Sturt's Change in the Village (1912), as well as Sturt's journals, A Wiltshire Village by Alfred Williams (1912), and Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson (1939-43), it looks at the experience of being 'between two civilizations' in these writings. The chapter identifies the ongoing perseverance of the theme of modernity and change as a key motif in rural representation, extending from the 19th-century worlds depicted in these works and persisting into the 20th-century as an enduring concept of the period.
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Published date: January 2014
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/361811
ISBN: 978 1 84893 440 5
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Charlotte Mathieson
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