ABSTRACT
The essays in this collection seek to challenge accepted scholarship on the rural-urban divide. Using case studies from the UK, Europe and America, contributors examine complex rural-urban relationships of conflict and cooperation. The volume will be of interest to those researching society and politics, criminology, literature and demographics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|46 pages
Sites of rural–urban encounter
chapter 1|15 pages
Lincoln's April Fair
Renegotiating rural and urban relations in a small city,
c.1820–1914
part II|44 pages
The changing world of work
chapter 6|15 pages
‘Following the tools’
Migration networks among the stone workers of Purbeck in the
nineteenth century
part III|42 pages
The impact of modernity on rural life
chapter 7|13 pages
‘Life in our villages is practically no life at all’
Sketching the rural–urban shift in nineteenth-century depictions of
Wales
chapter 9|13 pages
Reorienting the Piney Woods
Rural and urban change in south Mississippi, 1830–1910
part IV|47 pages
Social mobility and anxiety
chapter 10|15 pages
The urbanisation of James Carter
Autobiography, migration and the rural–urban divide in
nineteenth-century Britain
chapter 11|15 pages
Pip at the fingerpost
Nineteenth-century urban–rural relations and the reception of
Dickens's Great Expectations, 1860–1885
chapter 12|15 pages
Country bumpkin or backbone of the nation?
The urbanisation of the agricultural labourer and the ‘unmanning' of
the English in the later nineteenth century
