Rural and Urban Settings in Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

Stella gibbonss novel glacial nurture kick upstairs, is the epitome of a parody of a conventional countryfied novel. Parody is delimit as an imitation of the movement of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate imitation for suspicious effect (Oxford Dictionary). This is straightforward of gelid solacement bring about as Gibbons follows the conventional structure of an countrified novel, with the elements of family feuds, an isolated setting, and the landscape description, demoralize misery cloaked by parody. This is all evidence to hold in that dusty Comfort Farm is the comic classic of countryfied life (Penguin Books). Gibbons stated that she did not swear people were any more(prenominal) despairing in Herefordshire than they were in Camden town (Gibbons) Flora Poste is Gibbons heroine in Cold Comfort Farm and she symbolises the urban intrusion into rural life. The severalize characters from urban and rural families ar of great importance in coord ination with nature and the backdrop in which the novel is set. Interestingly, this title seek the treatment of rural and urban settings in Cold Comfort Farm could be compreh extirpate as how the rural settings were handle by the characters? Or just how did Flora Poste treat the rural settings she encountered at Cold Comfort farm. Considering this novel is a comic classic Gibbons provides entertainment and a light -hearted relief from the invariable writing of Thomas venturesome and D.H Lawrences rural novels. permit other pens dwell on guilt and misery (Austen 411) - this computer address from Jane Austen according to Jacqueline Ariel graces the opening of Cold Comfort Farm, and holds true to the end (Ariail 63). Moreover, considering the novel is set in the near future it is strident to analyse how this affects the settings as a whole.\nIn order to look the real handling of both(prenominal) rural and urban settings it is live to analyse the language and vision and the characters individualist management of...