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Title Landscape and Englishness / edited by Robert Burden and Stephan Kohl.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 1
Spatial practices ; 1. 1871-689X
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject England -- Historical geography.
England.
Historical geography.
Cultural landscapes -- England.
Cultural landscapes.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- England.
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects.
National characteristics, English.
National characteristics, English.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Burden, Robert.
Kohl, Stephan.
Other Form: Print version: Landscape and Englishness. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006 9789042021020 9042021020 (OCoLC)77077889
ISBN 9781429457026 (electronic book)
1429457023 (electronic book)
9789401203609
9401203601
9042021020 (paperback)
9789042021020 (paperback)