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Landscape and Englishness /

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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Burden, Robert, Kohl, Stephan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Spatial practices ; 1.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.