Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880 Volume 4

(Part of the Studies in British Art Series)

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This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art historians, historians, geographers, and literary scholars discuss a wide range of topics: the role of landscape in the construction of a national identity; tourism and the politics of the picturesque; the relation of scientific observation to naturalistic landscape; and the depiction of rural labor. In so doing, they point up the extent to which scholarship...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300063830

ISBN13:9780300063837

Release Date:October 1997

Publisher:Paul Mellon Centre

Length:336 Pages

Weight:2.78 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 7.3" x 10.3"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography

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Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880 Volume 4

(Part of the Studies in British Art Series)

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