The English Countryside

<div><div>1. Introduction -&nbsp;David Haigron.- 2.&nbsp;Part I: Rural Communities and Modernity: The English Countryside as an Invested Space -&nbsp;2. Rural Protest in England -&nbsp;Brendan Prendiville.-&nbsp;3. Agents, Beneficiaries and Victims: Picturing People on the Land -&nbsp;Jonathan Bignell & Jeremy Burchardt.-&nbsp;4. Visions of Rurality in Popular British Fictional Television Series from the 1970s to the Present Day -&nbsp;Renée Dickason.- 5.&nbsp;Part II: Praised Harmony and Revealing Dissonance: The English Countryside as a Resonant Space -&nbsp;5. Rural Landscape in Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Space and Robinson in Ruins -&nbsp;Georges Fournier.-&nbsp;6. London’s Parks, Suburbs and Environs: The English Countryside through the Eyes of French Visitors (1814-1914) -&nbsp;Richard Tholoniat.-&nbsp;7. Myths of “Old England” Revisited: Thomas Hardy’s Dissonant Representations of Rural Spaces in Under the Greenwood Tree, Far From the Madding Crowd, and The Woodlanders -&nbsp;Thierry Goater.-&nbsp;8. Going and Staying: Traditional Music in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy -&nbsp;Dennis Siler.- 9.&nbsp;Part III: Exploration and Meaning: The English Countryside as a Liminal Space -&nbsp;9. “The Innocent Island”: A Language of Violence in Woolf and Bowen -&nbsp;Gregory Dekter.-&nbsp;10. Rosamond Lehmann’s In-between Landscapes: Taking Possession of the “Empty Pastoral Scene” -&nbsp;Jessica Le Flem.-&nbsp;11. Rural Sites: Transformations and Experiment in the Poetry of Mark Goodwin -&nbsp;Kerry Featherstone.&nbsp;</div></div><div><br></div>