The invention of the countryside : hunting, walking and ecology in English literature, 1671-1831
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The invention of the countryside : hunting, walking and ecology in English literature, 1671-1831
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Today's hunting debate began in the eighteenth century, when the idea of the countryside was being invented through the imaginative displacement of agricultural production in favour of country sports and landscape tourism. Between the Game Act of 1671 and its repeal in 1831, writers on walking and hunting often held opposed views, but contributed equally to the origins of modern ecology, while sharing a commitment to trespass that preserved common rights in an era of growing privatization.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Inventing the Countryside: An Introduction PART I: FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRYSIDE The Greenness of Hunting Land, and Writing about Land Game and the Poacher The Sporting Life Origins of the Anti-Hunting Campaign PART II: HUNTING A COUNTRY Sportswomen Pleasures of the Chase circa 1735 to circa 1830 The Pleasures of Surtees PART III: WALKING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE The Pleasures of Perambulation 'This Lime-Tree Bower' as Walking Poem Dartmoor Visible Endnotes Index
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