Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920
- 1 Women in the Field
- 2 ‘Between Two Civilizations’: George Sturt's Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life
- 3 At Work and at Play: Charles Lee's Cynthia in the West
- 4 ‘Going Out, Going Alone’: Modern Subjectivities in Rural Scotland, 1900–21
- 5 ‘Drowned Lands’: Charles Kingsley's Hereward the Wake and the Masculation of the English Fens
- 6 ‘Wandering Like a Wild Thing’: Rurality, Women and Walking in George Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss
- 7 ‘I Never Liked Long Walks’: Gender, Nature and Jane Eyre's Rural Wandering
- 8 Gertrude Jekyll: Cultivating the Gendered Space of the Victorian Garden for Professional Success
- 9 From England to Eden: Gardens, Gender and Knowledge in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
- 10 The Transnational Rural in Alicia Little's My Diary in a Chinese Farm
- Notes
- Index
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Contents
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920
- 1 Women in the Field
- 2 ‘Between Two Civilizations’: George Sturt's Constructions of Loss and Change in Village Life
- 3 At Work and at Play: Charles Lee's Cynthia in the West
- 4 ‘Going Out, Going Alone’: Modern Subjectivities in Rural Scotland, 1900–21
- 5 ‘Drowned Lands’: Charles Kingsley's Hereward the Wake and the Masculation of the English Fens
- 6 ‘Wandering Like a Wild Thing’: Rurality, Women and Walking in George Eliot's Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss
- 7 ‘I Never Liked Long Walks’: Gender, Nature and Jane Eyre's Rural Wandering
- 8 Gertrude Jekyll: Cultivating the Gendered Space of the Victorian Garden for Professional Success
- 9 From England to Eden: Gardens, Gender and Knowledge in Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out
- 10 The Transnational Rural in Alicia Little's My Diary in a Chinese Farm
- Notes
- Index
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- Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920 , pp. v - viPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014