| 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). |