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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... physical space (as defined by practico-sensory activity and the perception of 'nature') on the other. (Lefebvre 2004: 27) Space, then, is no longer understood as a void filled by an observation or a representation. It is always already ...
... physical space (as defined by practico-sensory activity and the perception of 'nature') on the other. (Lefebvre 2004: 27) Space, then, is no longer understood as a void filled by an observation or a representation. It is always already ...
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... physical geography, the lie of the 1 For chorology see, among others: Sack 1990: 87-95; Entrikin 1989; and Sauer 1974: 318-20. Kant's relevant essay is 'Concerning the Ultimate Ground of the Differentiation of Directions in Space' [1768] ...
... physical geography, the lie of the 1 For chorology see, among others: Sack 1990: 87-95; Entrikin 1989; and Sauer 1974: 318-20. Kant's relevant essay is 'Concerning the Ultimate Ground of the Differentiation of Directions in Space' [1768] ...
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... physical embodiment , no name – an invisible presence to whom we shall later return . The landscape of this text , our third choropoetic , is vivid : it's right here and now in the present continuous tense . It is a “ branching ...
... physical embodiment , no name – an invisible presence to whom we shall later return . The landscape of this text , our third choropoetic , is vivid : it's right here and now in the present continuous tense . It is a “ branching ...
Pagina 33
... physical direction and metaphysical uncertainty. Indeed the literature on border geographies is not lacking.5 So in terms of place, then, we might focus on betweenness, liminality, border geographies and failures of place. We might also ...
... physical direction and metaphysical uncertainty. Indeed the literature on border geographies is not lacking.5 So in terms of place, then, we might focus on betweenness, liminality, border geographies and failures of place. We might also ...
Pagina 42
... physical trajectory). Once more, it is deictically beheld by our narrator, albeit on the larger scale. From this we see that a very dominant spatial mode or pattern has emerged from this short single-stanza pastoral text. Its depiction ...
... physical trajectory). Once more, it is deictically beheld by our narrator, albeit on the larger scale. From this we see that a very dominant spatial mode or pattern has emerged from this short single-stanza pastoral text. Its depiction ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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