Class, culture and the agrarian myth / by Tom Brass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brass, Tom, 1946- author.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 64.

Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Social conditions.

Peasants.

Rural conditions.

Social classes.

Culture conflict--Political aspects.

Culture conflict.

Culture conflict in motion pictures.

Culture conflict in literature.

Travel writing--History.

Travel writing.

Agriculture and politics.

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Capitalism--Philosophy.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (459 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, ‘ordinary’ or well-disposed towards ‘those below’, whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural ‘otherness’ abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.

Contents:

Part 1. Culture, tradition and modernity

Part 2. Screen images of rural struggle

Part 3. Culture, class struggle and travel.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27394-8

OCLC:

880531490

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004273948 DOI