Landscape and EnglishnessRobert Burden, Stephan Kohl Rodopi, 2006 - 266 pagina's In the papers collected in this, the first volume of the Spatial Practices series, Englishness is reflected in the spaces it occupies or dwells in. Broadly influenced by a renewed and growing interest in questions of cultural identity, its emergence in Victorian theories and fictions of nationality, and the new cultural geography, the papers cover a rich variety of spaces and places which have been appropriated for cultural meanings: the rural countryside and farmland of the Home Counties in the early nineteenth century as Arcadian idyll in Cobbett, as the land to die for in war propaganda, and as nostalgia for a unified, organic English culture in Lawrence, Morton and Priestley's travel writing, but also in the Shell Tourist Guides to motoring in rural England; English moorland; the sacred geographies of monuments in Hardy and others; the traditional seaside deconstructed in Martin Parr's photography, and the sea as English Victorian imperial territory and its symbolic breezes in Froude's travel writing. The English landscape is also a paradigm for the description of other places in D. H. Lawrence's travel writing or for the colonial territory itself in Rushdie's writing India, a displacement of other landscapes. This collection of papers examines the assumption that constructions of rural England provide the basis for an understanding of Englishness. |
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... Industries? 185 11 Christine Berberich This Green and Pleasant Land: Cultural Constructions of Englishness 207 Contemporary 12 Merle Tönnies Foregrounding Boundary Zones: Martin Parr's Photographic (De-) Constructions of Englishness 225 ...
... Industries? 185 11 Christine Berberich This Green and Pleasant Land: Cultural Constructions of Englishness 207 Contemporary 12 Merle Tönnies Foregrounding Boundary Zones: Martin Parr's Photographic (De-) Constructions of Englishness 225 ...
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... industry has commodified. Specific areas of countryside, renowned for their “natural beauty”, have become iconic. Berberich's paper in this volume has several examples: Betjeman's idealised village (1943); Vera Brittain's (1941) “fields ...
... industry has commodified. Specific areas of countryside, renowned for their “natural beauty”, have become iconic. Berberich's paper in this volume has several examples: Betjeman's idealised village (1943); Vera Brittain's (1941) “fields ...
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... industry, or pesticides; the Garden of England; the Green and Pleasant Land; “some corner of a foreign field that is forever England” (Rupert Brooke). – A history of nature and culture should account for “the constitution of knowledges ...
... industry, or pesticides; the Garden of England; the Green and Pleasant Land; “some corner of a foreign field that is forever England” (Rupert Brooke). – A history of nature and culture should account for “the constitution of knowledges ...
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... industry and trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth century brought them to the height of their usefulness. By the start of the eighteenth century, an active Scottish export trade in cattle had developed. Young beasts were assembled at ...
... industry and trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth century brought them to the height of their usefulness. By the start of the eighteenth century, an active Scottish export trade in cattle had developed. Young beasts were assembled at ...
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... Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Relph, Edward. 1976. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion. Rommetveit, Ragnar. 1990. 'On Axiomatic Features of a Dialogical Approach to Language and Mind' in Ivana Markova and Klaus Foppa ...
... Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. Relph, Edward. 1976. Place and Placelessness. London: Pion. Rommetveit, Ragnar. 1990. 'On Axiomatic Features of a Dialogical Approach to Language and Mind' in Ivana Markova and Klaus Foppa ...
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The Tourist Construction of Agriculture and Landscape in William Cobbetts Rural Rides 1830 | 71 |
Character Identity and Nationality in the English Novel | 89 |
Froudes Oceana and the Writing of the Sea | 103 |
Stonehenge Englishness English Fiction | 123 |
Cultural Difference and the Critique of Modernity in D H Lawrences Twilight in Italy 1916 and Other Travel Writing | 137 |
Travelogue and Nation Between the Wars | 165 |
An Invention of the Motor Industries? | 185 |
Cultural Constructions of Englishness | 207 |
Martin Parrs Photographic DeConstructions of Englishness | 225 |
Fictions Alternative Histories | 243 |
Index | 261 |
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