The Country and the City Revisited

"In identifying the culture of setting as a shared window onto awareness and experience in former times, all the contributors point to a very promising framework in which a refreshingly interdisciplinary enterprise of British studies could evolve." Carl B. Estabrook, Albion

• List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and notes on the text; 1. Introduction: the country and the city revisited, c.1550–1850 Gerald MacLean, Donna Landry and Joseph P. Ward; 2. Imagining the metropolis in Elizabethan and Stuart London Joseph P. Ward; 3. The peripatetic muse: internal travel and the cultural production of space in pre-revolutionary England Andrew McRae; 4. The Cookes and the Brookes: uses of portraiture in town and country before the Civil War Robert Tittler; 5. Digger writing and rural dissent in the English Revolution: representing England as a common treasury David Loewenstein; 6. 'Gulfes, Deserts, Precipices, Stone': Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House' and the contradictions of 'nature' Robert Markley; 7. Enthusiasm and Enlightenment: of food, filth and slavery Nigel Smith; 8. 'What is the country?': patriotism and the language of popularity during the English militia reform of 1757 Eliga Gould; 9. Who's making the scene? Real people in eighteenth-century topographical prints Richard Quaintance; 10. Imperial georgic, 1660–1789 Karen O'Brien; 11. The gentleman planter and the metropole: Long's History of Jamaica (1774) Elizabeth A. Bohls; 12. Crown forests and female georgic: Frances Burney and the reconstruction of Britishness Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook; 13. 'Wild outcasts of society': the transit of the Gypsies in Romantic period poetry Anne F. Janowitz; 14. Afterword: moving stories, still lives John Barrell; Index.