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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... Narratives in Twentieth Century Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999), and co-author (with Dr Chris Thurgar- Dawson) of Active Reading: Transformative Writing in Literary Stud- ies (Continuum, forthcoming 2006). STEPHAN KOHL is Professor ...
... Narratives in Twentieth Century Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999), and co-author (with Dr Chris Thurgar- Dawson) of Active Reading: Transformative Writing in Literary Stud- ies (Continuum, forthcoming 2006). STEPHAN KOHL is Professor ...
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... narrative of a uni- fied culture with its search for origins and traditions implies a false universalism that speaks in the voice of the white tribe (even when its history is full of discontinuities). There is a history of Englishness ...
... narrative of a uni- fied culture with its search for origins and traditions implies a false universalism that speaks in the voice of the white tribe (even when its history is full of discontinuities). There is a history of Englishness ...
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... narrative and historical forms that they assumed”. The crisis of Englishness is in part, then, produced by “a continuous con- flict between the centre and its Celtic and colonial peripheries” (Gi- kandi 1996: xvii). Britishness was an ...
... narrative and historical forms that they assumed”. The crisis of Englishness is in part, then, produced by “a continuous con- flict between the centre and its Celtic and colonial peripheries” (Gi- kandi 1996: xvii). Britishness was an ...
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... narrative structures have the status of spatial syntaxes [...] Every story is a travel story – a spatial practice. (115) His work draws on Lefebvre, Foucault, structuralism, but also on psy- choanalysis. Childhood memories need places ...
... narrative structures have the status of spatial syntaxes [...] Every story is a travel story – a spatial practice. (115) His work draws on Lefebvre, Foucault, structuralism, but also on psy- choanalysis. Childhood memories need places ...
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... narrative” (1978: 102, emphasis original). Other examples are upbeat, upgrade, upstanding, uptrend, on the up and up, and rise to sth in contrast to go down the drain, down-hearted, downbeat, down at heel, decline, collapse, breakdown ...
... narrative” (1978: 102, emphasis original). Other examples are upbeat, upgrade, upstanding, uptrend, on the up and up, and rise to sth in contrast to go down the drain, down-hearted, downbeat, down at heel, decline, collapse, breakdown ...
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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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argued beauty Bhabha body tour Britain British Cambridge century choropoetic Cobbett Cognitive Cognitive Linguistics colonial construction contemporary Cosgrove cultural geography D. H. Lawrence defined deictic dialogical discourse empire English countryside essay example fiction focalizer Froude Froude's guidebook literature Hawksmoor Howards End idea idyll image schema imperial industrial inter-war J.B. Priestley John journey Lake Garda land Lawrence Lawrence's Lefebvre lish literary London look Martin Parr meaning metaphor modern modernist moorland Morton myth narrative national character national identity nature Northanger Abbey ocean Oxford Parr pastoral path Penguin political preposition reader region Renton representation Routledge Rural Rides scene Sea and Sardinia sense signifier Rural England Sir Darius social society Spatial Practices Stonehenge symbolic Tess tion tourist traditional trajector transl travel writing Twilight in Italy University of Teesside verbs vertical village White Teeth William William Renton