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Title:
Landscape and Englishness / edited by Robert Burden and Stephan Kohl.
Publisher:
Rodopi,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
England--Historical geography.
Cultural landscapes--England.
Landscapes--Symbolic aspects--England.
National characteristics, English.
Other Authors:
Burden, Robert.
Kohl, Stephan.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Englishness and spatial practices / Robert Burden -- Negotiating Englishness: choropoetics, reciprocal spatial realities and holistic spatial semantics in William Renton's 'The fork of the road' (1876) / Chris Thurgar-Dawson -- The vertical axis in landscape description: elaborations of the image schemas UP and DOWN / Christoph Schubert -- England's domestic others: the tourist construction of agriculture and landscape in William Cobbett's Rural rides (1830) / Ralph Pordzik -- Character, identity, and nationality in the English novel / Patrick Parrinder -- "The natural home of Englishmen": Froude's Oceana and the writing of the sea / Bernhard Klein -- "The architecture of the devil": Stonehenge, Englishness, English fiction / Silvia Mergenthal -- Home thoughts from abroad: cultural difference and the critique of modernity in D. H. Lawrence's Twilight in Italy (1916) and other travel writing / Robert Burden -- In search of England: travelogue and nation between the wars / Ben Knights -- Rural England: an invention of the motor industries? / Stephan Kohl -- This green and pleasant land: cultural constructions of Englishness / Christine Berberich -- Foregrounding boundary zones: Martin Parr's photographic (de-) constructions of Englishness / Merle Tòˆnnies -- "England as a pure, white Palladian mansion set upon a hill above a silver winding river": fiction's alternative histories / Ruth Helyer.
Series:
Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 1.
ISBN:
9042021020 (pbk.)
9789042021020 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)77077889
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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