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The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730 1840 by John Barrell

ameliaminamikoji's review against another edition

5.0

'English eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century painting of rural life... evades the extremes at once of pastoral idleness in a perpetual and a hopeless present tense, and of a hard georgic life whose rewards and pleasures are always in the future, and which offers us in the meantime - and it's always the meantime - a life of assiduous self-discipline and of a continued effort to maintain civilisation by cultivation.'