The Invention of the English Landscape : c. 1700-1939 /: c. 1700-1939. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Borsay with Rosemary Sweet.
• Authors: Borsay, Peter; Sweet, Rosemary
• Contents: Intro -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Revealing the early modern landscape -- Exploration and tourism -- The discovery of the natural landscape -- Exploring the human landscape -- 3 Ideas and representations -- The Reformation -- The Enlightenment -- Romanticism -- Representations -- 4 Reconfiguring the landscape -- Ideas -- Cultural media -- Production and performance -- Reception -- 5 New geographies and topographies -- Imagined spaces -- Town: Grey space -- Country: Green space Water: Blue space -- Frameworks of spaces -- 6 Timescapes -- Landscapes of memory and myth -- stories and landscape -- Deep history: Geology and natural history -- Pre-history -- Recent pasts and competing pasts -- Old towns and villages -- Landscape as modernism -- the modernist seaside and countryside -- 7 Economic and social change -- Industrialization -- Urbanization -- Leisure -- 8 The transport revolution and the journey -- The transport revolution and recreational travel -- Walking -- Experiencing the journey -- 9 Identities -- Landscape, identities and nation -- The British paradox Race and empire -- Religion, class and gender -- 10 Conclusion: The Second World War and beyond -- The Second World War -- Modernity and the post-war decades -- Towards the millennium and beyond -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Imprint
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 304.20941; Gardens, English; Landscape gardening -- History -- 18th century; Landscape gardening -- History -- 19th century; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; British & Irish history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Gardens, English; Landscape gardening; England; England; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350031685; 1350031682; 1350031666; 9781350031661
• Related ISBNs: 9781350031654; 9781350031661; 9781350031678; 9781350269767
• Notes: Note: Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed August 7th, 2023).
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.