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Lifescapes
The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960
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Artikel-Nr:
9781009199872
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
11.05.2023
Seiten:
518
Autor:
Jeremy (University of Reading) Burchardt
Gewicht:
902 g
Format:
237x162x39 mm
Serie:
Modern British Histories
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Jeremy Burchardt is Associate Professor in Rural History at the University of Reading. He is Principal Investigator of the Arts & Humanities Research Council research network 'Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives' and was P. H. Ditchfield Fellow at the Museum of English Rural Life, 2019¿20. His previous publications include The Allotment Movement in England, 1793¿1873 (2002) and Paradise Lost: Rural Idyll and Social Change Since 1800 (2002).
Why does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples.
Preface; Introduction; 1. Diaries, life writing and popular ruralism; Adherers; 2. Beatrix Cresswell: Exeter antiquarian; 3. William Henry Hallam: Swindon turner; Withdrawers; 4. Katherine Spear Smith: Hampshire artist; 5. Violet Dickinson: itinerant craftswoman; Restorers; 6. Dr John Johnston: Bolton doctor; 7. Bert Bissell: Dudley probation officer; Explorers; 8. Sadie Barmes: London clerk; 9. Fred Catley: Bristol bookseller; Conclusion: towards a deep history of landscape; Bibliography.