Green unpleasant land : creative responses to rural Britain's colonial connections / Corinne Fowler.
By: Fowler, Corinne [author.]
.Publisher: Leeds : Peepal Tree, 2020Description: 324 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781845234829.Other title: Green unpleasant land : creative responses to rural England's colonial connections [Cover title].Subject(s): Country life in literature | Country life -- England -- History | Slavery -- Great Britain -- History | Postcolonialism -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Colonies -- HistoryDDC classification: 942.009734 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Queen's Room, Principal Floor | New Books Display | 942.009734 FOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 018987 |
Cover title: Green unpleasant land : creative responses to rural England's colonial connections.
"Supported using public funding by Arts Council England" -- t.p. verso.
I. Empire, literature and rural England -- Nation at the crossroads -- Green unpleasant land -- Pastoral -- Country houses -- Moorlands -- Plants, gardens and empire -- II. Creative responses : the colonial countryside -- Fields : Strawberries -- Gardens : Azaleas -- Graveyards : Myrtilla -- Hills : Cotswolds -- Maypoles : Green and pleasant land -- Moorlands : Heathcliff -- Parks : Kings Heath Park -- Pastoral : A new chronology -- Pubs : Public houses of Britain -- Seeds : William Blathwayt of Dyrham Park -- Woodlands : An escaped slave from Yorkshire, 1789.