Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century

Mary Hammond is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Southampton, UK, and founding Director of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research. Barry Sloan is Professor of English at the University of Southampton and a member of the Southampton Centre of Nineteenth-Century Research.

• Introduction Mary Hammond and Barry SloanSites of Rural-Urban Encounter1. Lincoln’s April Fair: Renegotiating Rural and Urban Relations in a small city, c. 1820-1910Andrew Walker2. Policing Brough Hill Fair, 1856-1910: Protecting Westmorland from Urban CriminalsGuy Woolnough3. Urban Unitarians vs. Rural Trinitarians: Town Liberals in a Planter CultureJohn A. MacaulayThe Changing World of Work 4. Country Butchers and the City in the Exe Valley, 1840-1900 Julia Neville5. Doncaster and its Environs: Town and Countryside – a Reciprocal Relationship?Sarah Holland6. ‘Following the Tools’: Migration Networks among the Stone Workers of Purbeck in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Hinde and Michael EdgarThe Impact of Modernity on Rural Life7. ‘Life in our Villages is practically no Life at all’: Sketching the Rural-Urban Shift in Nineteenth-Century Depictions of Wales Michelle Deininger8. The Early Popular Press and its Common Readers in Fin-de-Siècle Prague Jakub Machek9. Reorienting the Piney Woods: Rural and Urban Change in South Mississippi, 1830-1910Reagan GrimsleySocial Mobility and Anxiety10. The Urbanization of James Carter: Autobiography, Migration and the Rural-Urban Divide in Nineteenth-Century Britain Christopher Ferguson11. Pip at the Fingerpost: Nineteenth-Century Urban-Rural Relations and the Reception of Dickens’s Great Expectations, 1860-1885 Mary Hammond12. Country Bumpkin or Backbone of the Nation?: the Urbanization of the Agricultural Labourer and the ‘Unmanning’ of the English in the later Nineteenth CenturyBarry Sloan