Beer, Gillian. “Charles Kingsley and the Literary
Image of the Countryside,” Victorian Studies Vol. VIII, No. 3 (March
1965): 243-254.
Beer argues that Kingsley’s genuine love and appreciation of nature
and the countryside were combined with an understanding of the frequently
difficult lot of the country poor. He eschewed any aesthetic of landscape
which ignored the plight of its inhabitants. Kingsley’s “point is that
the starving and sick cannot savour beauty, and that the country poor require
help if their life is to become anything better than a mockery of pastoralism”
(248).
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