The Invention of the Countryside : Hunting, Walking and Ecology in English Literature, 1671–1831 (Hardcover)

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Inventing the Countryside: An Introduction PART I: FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRYSIDE The Greenness of Hunting Land, and Writing about Land Game and the Poacher The Sporting Life Origins of the Anti-Hunting Campaign PART II: HUNTING A COUNTRY Sportswomen Pleasures of the Chase circa 1735 to circa 1830 The Pleasures of Surtees PART III: WALKING IN THE COUNTRYSIDE The Pleasures of Perambulation 'This Lime-Tree Bower' as Walking Poem Dartmoor Visible Endnotes Index