Landscape and Englishness (Paperback)

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Paperback. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenship and the body.Landscape and Englishness is extensively illustrated and draws on a wide range of material topographical guides, health manuals, paintings, poetry, architectural polemic, photography, nature guides and novels. This edition contains a new preface by the author. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where Englishvisions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questionsof national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenshipand the body. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de ref. del artículo 9781780235813

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Acerca del autor: David Matless is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. His books include Landscape and Englishness (revd edn 2016) and About England (2023), both published by Reaktion Books, as well as In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads (2014).