Author: William Henry HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Here 'Downland' refers to the chalk countriside of Southern England and the Isle of Wight.
Nature in Downland
Author: William Henry HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Here 'Downland' refers to the chalk countriside of Southern England and the Isle of Wight.
Nature Notes
Author: Landscape and Englishness
Author: David MatlessPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780237146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
As David Matless argues in this book—updated in this accessible, pocket edition—landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. It is the aspect of English life where 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. Extensively illustrated, Landscape and Englishness explores just how important the aesthetics of Britain’s cities and countryside have been to its people. Matless examines a wide range of material, including topographical guides, health manuals, paintings, poetry, architectural polemics, photography, nature guides, and novels. Taking readers to the interwar period, he explores how England negotiated the modern and traditional, the urban and rural, the progressive and preservationist, in its decisions over how to develop the countryside, re-plan cities, and support various cultures of leisure and citizenship. Tracing the role of landscape to Englishness from then up until the present day, he shows how familiar notions of heritage in landscape are products of the immediate post-war era, and he unveils how the present always resonates with the past.
Nature in Downland
Author: William Henry HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020
Author: Will AbberleyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108126219
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Why do we speak so much of nature today when there is so little of it left? Prompted by this question, this study offers the first full-length exploration of modern British nature writing, from the late eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on non-fictional prose writing, the book supplies new readings of classic texts by Romantic, Victorian and Contemporary authors, situating these within the context of an enduringly popular genre. Nature writing is still widely considered fundamentally celebratory or escapist, yet it is also very much in tune with the conflicts of a natural world under threat. The book's five authors connect these conflicts to the triple historical crisis of the environment; of representation; and of modern dissociated sensibility. This book offers an informed critical approach to modern British nature writing for specialist readers, as well as a valuable guide for general readers concerned by an increasingly diminished natural world.
The Boy's Own Nature Book
Author: William Percival WestellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Selborne Magazine and "Nature Notes,"
Author: The Annual American Catalogue
Author: The Annual American Catalog, 1900-1909
Author: Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description