Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

ISBN-13: 9781108424738 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 348 str.

Paul Readman

Opis

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

Recenzje

'… a pleasure to read … Given our post-Brexit national dissensus, Readman's study is timely in its insistence on a more nuanced view of English cultural nationalism.' Caroline Edwards, Times Higher Education

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Borders: 1. The cliffs of Dover; 2. The Northumbrian borderland; Part II. Preservation: 3. The Lake District; 4. The New Forest; Part III. Beyond the South Country: 5. Manchester: shock landscape?; 6. The Thames; Conclusion.