The Country and the City Revisited by Gerald MacLean, Donna L... - 9780521592017

Cambridge University Press

The Country and the City RevisitedEngland and the Politics of Culture, 15501850\nAuthor(s): Gerald MacLean, Donna Landry, Joseph P. Ward\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521592017, 978-0521592017\nSynopsis\nBetween 1550 and 1850, the great age of mercantilism, the English people remade themselves from a disparate group of individuals and localities divided by feudal loyalties, dialects and even languages, into an imperial power. Examining literature, art and social life, and returning to ground first explored by Raymond Williams in his seminal work, The Country and the City Revisited traces this transformation. It shows that what Williams figured as an urban-rural dichotomy can now be more satisfactorily grasped as a permeable boundary. While the movement of sugar, tobacco and tea became ever more deeply interfused with the movement of people, through migration and the slave trade, these commod.