Research Catalog

Title

Spirits of community : English senses of belonging and loss, 1750-2000 / K.D.M. Snell.

Author

Snell, K. D. M.

Publication

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

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Details

Subject

• Community life > England > History
• Community life > England > History > Sources
• Belonging (Social psychology) > England > History
• Loss (Psychology) > Social aspects > England > History
• Social change > England > History
• England > Social conditions
• Community life in literature
• Community life > In art
• English literature > History and criticism
• Art, English > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Writing Back to Community : Home and Friends Among the Poor -- 2. On the Road out of Community : The Migrant Poor in Painting -- 3. Parochial Globalisation : The Anglican Community -- 4. Thomas Hardy and Community : From Village "Quire" to Jude's Obscurity -- 5. Weeding out Village Life : Detective Fiction and Murderous Community -- 6. James Wentworth Day and Conservative Ideas of Community -- 7. Adrian Bell and the East Anglian Farming Community -- 8. Community Individualised : from H.E. Bates' Cobbled Gloom to the Darling Buds of May.

Call Number

JFE 16-9684

ISBN

• 9781474268844
• 1474268846

LCCN

• 2015047333
• 60002107421

OCLC

920451439

Author

Snell, K. D. M., author.

Title

Spirits of community : English senses of belonging and loss, 1750-2000 / K.D.M. Snell.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Description

xi, 341 pages ; 24 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Summary

"Concern about the 'decline of community', and the theme of 'community spirit', are internationally widespread in the modern world. The English past has featured many representations of declining community, expressed by those who lamented its loss in quite different periods and in diverse genres. This book analyses how community spirit and the passing of community have been described in the past--whether for good or ill--with an eye to modern issues, such as the so-called 'loneliness epidemic' or the social consequences of alternative structures of community. It does this through examination of authors such as Thomas Hardy, James Wentworth Day, Adrian Bell and H.E. Bates, by appraising detective fiction writers, analysing parish magazines, considering the letter writing of the parish poor in the 18th and 19th centuries, and through the depictions of realist landscape painters such as George Morland. K.D.M. Snell addresses modern social concerns, showing how many current preoccupations had earlier precedents. In presenting past representations of declining communities, and the way these affected individuals of very different political persuasions, the book draws out lessons and examples from the past about what community has meant hitherto, setting into context modern predicaments and judgements about 'spirits of community' today"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Snell, K.D.M. Spirits of community. London : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 9781474268851 (DLC) 2015049090

Other Standard Identifier

60002107421

Research Call Number

JFE 16-9684