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"Rural Modernity in Britain doesn't merely fill a notable gap in studies of ""modernism"" and ""modernity""--it provides a new template for understanding these terms in reference to Britain. Charting diverse, regionally inflected responses to modernity, the volume moves beyond the model of a single ""countryside"" as the locus of nostalgia or the weekend fantasies of modern urban dwellers to render the ""rural"" complex and vital.-- ""Debra Rae Cohen, University of South Carolina"" One of the book's great successes--perhaps, ultimately, the most important test for any academic work--is how much it sparks new and exciting trains of thought. [...] Rural Modernity in Britain claims in its subtitle to be ""a critical intervention."" It is a key intervention, and its influence deserves to be widely felt.--Luke Seaber, University College London ""The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945"""

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Kristin Bluemel is Professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray Chair in the Humanities at Monmouth University in New Jersey. She is the author of books on modernist Dorothy Richardson and intermodernist George Orwell; articles and chapters on regional and middlebrow writers; editor of Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain (EUP, 2011), and past editor of the journal The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945. Her work in progress examines interwar women wood engravers. Michael McCluskey is Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of York. Among his published articles are: 'Humphrey Jennings in the East End: Fires Were Started and Local Geographies' for London Journal, and 'The Postman's Daily Round: English Journeys in 1930s Documentary Film' for The Space Between, Literature and Culture 1914-1945 6.1 (2011): 105-23.

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