Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading)

Lifescapes

The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Modern British Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 237mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 902g
• ISBN-13: 9781009199872
• ISBN-10: 1009199870
• Artikelnr.: 66687641

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.