Between 1750 and 1770, the landscape of England was transformed by the building and improving of roads on an unprecedented scale. The result was simultaneously an apparent fragmentation - a landscape literally divided by administrative units called turnpike trusts - and a new unification - the linking together of parts into a new national whole. Laugero examines this material and conceptual event of "unification" through "fragmentation" in relation to the making of roads and the emergence of literature ca.1750-1830. His argument is that the arrangement of those parts and wholes was not only geographical: the circulation of individuals, commodities and information through new channels of communication and exchange, particularly the literary, brought about new kinds of individuals for a new kind of society.
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