Landscape and Englishness [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Robert Burden and Stephan Kohl

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; New York, NY, : Rodopi, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Cultural landscapes - England; Landscapes - Symbolic aspects - England; National characteristics, English
• Soggetto geografico: England Historical geography
• Altri autori: BurdenRobert KohlStephan
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Landscape and Englishness; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Englishness and Spatial Practices; Negotiating Englishness: Choropoetics, Reciprocal Spatial Realities and Holistic Spatial Semantics in William Renton's 'The Fork of the Road' (1876); The Vertical Axis in Landscape Description: Elaborations of the Image Schemas UP and DOWN; England's Domestic Others: The Tourist Construction of Agriculture and Landscape in William Cobbett's Rural Rides (1830); Character, Identity, and Nationality in the English Novel ; "The natural home of Englishmen": Froude's Oceana and the Writing of the Sea"The Architecture of the Devil": Stonehenge, Englishness, English Fiction; Home Thoughts from Abroad: Cultural Difference and the Critique of Modernity in D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy (1916) and Other Travel Writing; In Search of England: Travelogue and Nation Between the Wars; Rural England: An Invention of the Motor Industries?; This Green and Pleasant Land: Cultural Constructions of Englishness; Foregrounding Boundary Zones: Martin Parr's Photographic (De-)Constructions of Englishness ; "England as a pure, white Palladian mansion set upon a hill above a silver winding river": Fiction's Alternative HistoriesIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, an
• Titolo autorizzato: Landscape and Englishness
• ISBN: 94-012-0360-1; 1-4294-5702-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777869703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Spatial practices ; ; 1.