Writing of Rural England, 1500-1800

STEPHEN BENDING is the co-editor of Henry Mackenzie's The Man of Feeling and of Tracing Architectures, c. 1700-1840. He has published numerous articles on eighteenth-century gardens and landscape, and is currently working on a study of women gardeners in the eighteenth century. He is a lecturer at the University of Southampton.ANDREW MCRAE is the author of God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (1996), Renaissance Drama (2003), and Satire and the Early Stuart State (2003). He has published numerous articles on literature and cultural history, and is currently writing a book on domestic travel in early modern Britain. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter.

• Acknowledgements Feudalism and Beyond: The Anxiety of Change The Discovery of Landscape The Country House Merry England: Property, Pastoral and Rural Pleasures The Georgic Imperative: Labour, Thrift, Improvement Property and Oppression: Voices from the Margins Gardens: Public and Private Pleasures