Description: The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking & Ecology In English Literature, 1671-1831, by Donna Landry, published in England by Palgrave-Macmillan in 2001 Condition is Brand New with no signs of use. No faults detected. This will be packed very carefully and shipped US Media Mail with Tracking. We are happy to combine items to save you money on shipping. We can send you three typical DVDs for the price of 1. or 2 novels shipped together might just cost an extra 60 cents for the second book. Just put your selection in your shopping cart and press the Request Total button (top right) and we will get back to you with the lowest combined shipping. From the flyleaf: 'This book opens up large prospects while remaining intensely local and palpable, enriched by "the discourse of manure", exhausting but almost indecently readable. This passionate reinterpretation of British hunting as an enactment of community and a mode of perception, rather than the aristocratic ritual it later became, yields brilliant insights into every aspect of eighteenth-century aesthetic and cultural history. Landry leaps every fence." -James Grantham Turner, author of The Politics of Landscape and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displace ment of agricultural production in favor of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671 and its repeal in 1831, writers on walking and hunting often held opposed views, but contributed equally to the origins of modern ecology, while sharing a commitment to trespass that preserved common rights in an era of growing privatization. In poetry, novels, periodicals, and treatises, as well as in painting and landscape design, the conflict between hunting and walking was endlessly replayed. Hunting had once been a form of naturalistic fieldwork, but increasingly became entertainment business. Walking took on some of hunting's immersion in the natural world, but subordinated scientific concerns to aesthetic ones. Modern conservation and ecology owe as much to hunting discourse as to anti-blood sports pedestrianism. In the light of this book, today's debate will never again look quite the same. For a note on the author, please see the back flap Donna Landry is Professor of English at Wayne State University and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter. Her publications include, as author, The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796 and, with Gerald MacLean, she is co-author of Materialist Feminisms. The jacket reproduces (back) Sleeping Fox (1794) by Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767-1849), courtesy of the Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland; and (front) The Benevolent Sportsman (1792) by George Morland (1763-1804), courtesy of the Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge. By the way: Welcome to the new ebay storefront for The Shepherd's Center of Winston-Salem. The store will be operated by experienced ebay sellers who have been selling some of our best donations for several years now through their own storefronts. Now we are using these same experienced sellers to sell to you directly. For the philanthropists out there, the vast majority of the items sold by us (GutenburgReads and others), are for the benefit of The Shepherd's Center of Greater Winston-Salem, whose mission is to help house-bound seniors live full and independent lives in their own homes. The center provides transportation to medical appointments and grocery shopping, assistance with minor repairs around the house, and companionship through visits. The citizens of Winston-Salem generously donate books, music, movies, and more to us to help us achieve our mission. And now, you can buy useful items from us directly, and you will be helping the less fortunate in our city.
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Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Personalize: No
Era: 1700s
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Adults
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
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Book Title: Invention of the Countryside : Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831
Item Length: 9.5in
Item Height: 1in
Item Width: 6.4in
Author: Donna Landry
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Features: Revised
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Nature, General, Modern / 19th Century, Modern / General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Subjects & Themes / General
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan The Limited
Publication Year: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism, Sports & Recreation
Item Weight: 39 Oz
Number of Pages: Xx, 306 Pages
