The countryside ideal : Anglo-American images of landscape / Michael Bunce.

Main entry:

Bunce, M. F.

Title & Author:

The countryside ideal : Anglo-American images of landscape / Michael Bunce.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.

Description:

xiv, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-225) and index.
1. The Making of an Ideal -- 2. The Armchair Countryside -- 3. A Place in the Country -- 4. The People's Playground -- 5. The Country in the City -- 6. The Countryside Movement -- 7. Reflections.

Summary:

"One of the contradictions of modern urban civilisation is the persistence of a nostalgia for rural life and landscape which has raised the countryside to an idealised status. So far the discussion of this phenomenon has been restricted to the relatively narrow perspectives of literary and intellectual history. This book broadens the analysis of the countryside ideal by exploring the relationships between its cultural origins and its manifestation in contemporary landscapes. The Countryside Ideal examines the main historical processes and ideas underlying the continuing attachment to the countryside, and how these have influence popular values and lifestyles, defined attitudes to nature, country life and landscape, and affected the development of rural and urban landscapes. The cultural geographical framework recognises the particular strength of the countryside ideal in Anglo-American culture, and explores the similarities and differences in its British and North American expression. This book draws together diverse images of landscape to explore this preoccupation with place, culture and representation in Anglo-American society"--Provided by publisher.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415104343
9780415104340
0415104351 (pbk.)
9780415104357 (pbk.)
9780203973707
0203973704

Subject:

Landscapes Great Britain Historiography.
Landscapes United States Historiography.
Ideals (Aesthetics)
Landscape United States Historiography.
Paysages Grande-Bretagne Historiographie.
Paysages États-Unis Historiographie.
Idéaux (Esthétique)
Historical geography.
Landscapes Historiography.
Heimwee.
Platteland.
Planejamento territorial rural Estados unidos.
Planejamento territorial rural Grã-bretanha.
Paisagem Estados unidos.
Paisagem Grã-bretanha.
Country life Great Britain.
Country life United States.
Great Britain Historical geography.
United States Historical geography.
Great Britain Géographie historique.
États-Unis Géographie historique.
Great Britain.
United States.
Countryside

Holdings:

Location: Library main 106391
Call No.: ID DA600.B79; ID:94-B2488
Status: Available

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