Deep England
Deep England
"Deep England" refers to an idealised view of a rural, Southern England. The term is often used to describe what English cultural conservatives would wish to conserve, and is used by both supporters and critics of the concept.[1][2] The term, which alludes to la France profonde, has been attributed to both Patrick Wright[3] and Angus Calder.[4] The concept of Deep England may imply an explicit opposition to modernism and industrialisation;[5] and may be connected to a ruralist viewpoint typified by the writer H. J. Massingham.[6] Major artists whose work is associated with Deep England include: the writer Thomas Hardy,[7] the painter John Constable,[8] the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams,[9] and the poets Rupert Brooke[3] and Sir John Betjeman.[7] Examples of this conservative or village green viewpoint include the ideological outlook of magazines such as This England.[10] Wartime propaganda is sometimes taken to reflect a generalised view of a rural Deep England, but this is perhaps to ignore both the competing views of ruralism, and the mix of rural and non-rural actually offered for a post-war vision of a better Britain.[11]
References
- ↑ Leach, Jim (30 August 2004). British Film. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521654197. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Murray, Douglas (16 December 2023). "In search of deep England". The Spectator. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Hughes, Helen (14 January 2004). The Historical Romance. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203168028. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Wild, Trevor (26 February 2004). Village England: A Social History of the Countryside. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781860649394. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Westwood, Sallie; Williams, John (19 June 2004). Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs, Memory. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780203397350. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Garrity, Jane (2003). Step-daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719061646. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Walker, Ian (2007). So Exotic, So Homemade: Surrealism, Englishness and Documentary Photography. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719073403. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Williams, Richard J.; Williams, Dick (2004). The Anxious City: English Urbanism in the Late Twentieth Century. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415279260. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Melman, Billie (22 June 2006). The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800–1953. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199296880. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Baker, Brian (2007). Iain Sinclair. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719069055. Retrieved 24 January 2009 – via Google Books. Search this book on
- ↑ Matless (1998), pp. 204–206.
