Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

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

Paul (King's College London) 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.