Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-xii

Introduction: Rural Modernity in Britain

pp 1-16

Part I - Networks

pp 17-18

1 - Ringing the Changes: Thomas Hardy’s Communication Networks

pp 19-32

2 - Change in the Village: Filming Rural Britain

pp 33-49

3 - Electricity Comes to the Countryside: Visual Representations of a Connected Countryside in the Early Twentieth Century

pp 50-66

Part II - Landscapes

pp 67-68

4 - Weighing Down the Landscape: The Quarry as a Site of Rural Modernity

pp 69-83

5 - Windmills and Woodblocks: Agnes Miller Parker, Wood Engraving and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain

pp 84-102

6 - Hiraeth and Ambiguous Pastorals: Wales, England and Rural Modernities between the Wars

pp 103-118

Part III - Communities

pp 119-120

7 - The ‘Uncertainty of Our Climate’: Mary Kelly and the Rural Theatre

pp 121-134

8 - The Spinster in Eden: Reclaiming Civilisation in Interwar British Rural Fiction

pp 135-148

9 - Transformative Pastoral: Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s A Scots Quair

pp 149-164

Part IV - Heritage

pp 165-166

10 - Borderlands: Visual and Material Culture in the Interwar Anglo-Scottish Borders

pp 167-186

11 - Beyond Portmeirion: The Architecture, Planning and Protests of Clough Williams-Ellis

pp 187-206

12 - Celebrating England: ‘Heritage’ Writing and the Rural Novelist

pp 207-222

Part V - Wars

pp 223-224

13 - Altered Countrysides: Paul Nash, David Jones and Eric Ravilious in Wartime

pp 225-238

14 - Eden in Sussex: Atheist Moderns and the Berwick Church Murals

pp 239-254

15 - Rural Modernity in a Time of Crisis: Preservation and Reform in the Books of B. T. Batsford

pp 255-269

Notes on Contributors

pp 270-273

Bibliography

pp 274-293

Index

pp 294-302