Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular Landscape, 1700-1830

Rachel Crawford examines the intriguing, often problematic relationship between poetry and landscape in eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Britain. She discusses the highly contested parliamentary enclosure movement which closed off the last of England's open fields between 1760 and 1815. She considers enclosure as a prevailing metaphor for a reconceptualization of the aesthetics of space in which enclosed and confined sites became associated with productivity. She then examines explicit landscape imagery--such as the apple, the iron industry, and the kitchen garden--within the context of georgic and minor lyric poetry.

Author: Rachel Crawford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/05/2002
Pages: 334
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521815314