Landscape and Englishness

(Paperback, Second expanded edition)

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David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where Englishvisions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questionsof national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenshipand the body.

Landscape and Englishnessis extensively illustrated and draws on a widerange of material topographical guides, health manuals, paintings, poetry,architectural polemic, photography, nature guides and novels. This editioncontains a new preface by the author.

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' - cultural history at its best, subtle, multi-layered and full of new ideas and insights - this book is a "must".' - Contemporary British History ' - creates a convincing portrait of the changing meanings of the English landscape in the twentieth century.' - The Times Literary Supplement

Author Bio

David Matless is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads (2014) and The Regional Book (2015), and co-editor of Geographies of British Modernity (2003) and The Place of Music (1998).