ISBN-13: 9780415104340 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 256 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415104340 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 256 str.
One of the contradictions of modern urban civilization is the persistence of a nostalgia for rural life and landscape which has raised the countryside to an idealized status. The discussion of this phenomenon is frequently restricted to the relatively narrow perspectives of literary and intellectual history. This work attempts to broaden the analysis of the countryside ideal by exploring the relationships between its cultural origins and its manifestation in contemporary landscapes.