The Country and the City

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The Country and the City is a seminal work of cultural and literary criticism by Raymond Williams that examines how English literature has represented rural and urban life from the 16th century to the modern era.

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instanceOf book
work of cultural criticism
work of literary criticism
author Raymond Williams NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
discussesConcept city as modernity
country-house tradition in literature
pastoral
examines English rural-urban relations
ideology of the city
industrialization in England
myth of the rural idyll
social change in England
focusesOnPeriod 16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
genre cultural criticism
literary criticism
hasPart analysis of poetry
close readings of English novels
historical commentary
hasPerspective anti-pastoral
left-wing
influenced cultural studies
literary geography
rural studies
urban studies
language English
mainSubject English literature
representations of the city
representations of the countryside
rural life in literature
urban life in literature
notableFor analysis of class relations in literature
critique of nostalgic ruralism
historical mapping of country-city representations
publicationYear 1973
publisher Chatto & Windus NERFINISHED
relatedWork Culture and Society NERFINISHED
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society NERFINISHED
setInContextOf English social history
development of capitalism in England
theoreticalApproach Marxist cultural analysis
historical materialism

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