This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century.
This is a book about a longstanding network of writers and writings that celebrate the aesthetic, socio-political, scientific, ecological, geographical, and historical value of trees and tree spaces in the landscape; and it is a study of the effect of this tree-writing upon the novel form in the long nineteenth century.
Anna Burton is an early career researcher and teaching fellow at the University of Liverpool. Her research interests include long nineteenth-century literature, natural history, nature writing, and the afterlives of the 'Picturesque'.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter One A Silvicultural Tradition Single Trees and Remarkable Specimens From Clumps to Forests: Trees in Combination Gilpin and the New Forest A Changing Woodscape: Preservation and Planting into the Nineteenth Century Chapter Two Arboreal Boundaries and Silvicultural 'Improvement' in the Literary Landscapes of Jane Austen Silvicultural Dynamism: Arboreal Conversations and Characterisations Trees, Improvement, and Maintaining Arboreal Boundaries Chapter Three The Presence and Absence of Trees in the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell The Topographies of Trees in Libbie Marsh's Three Eras and Ruth 'delicious air' and the Green Belt in North and South Chapter Four Reading Ancient Trees and Arboreal Strata in The Woodlanders Arboreal Accumulation and the 'Billy Wilkins' Tree Reading Stratigraphical Woodscapes: The Intersection of Aesthetics and Geology Chapter Five 'Such is the Vale of Blackmoor': Navigating Trees, Memory, and Prospect in Tess of the D'Urbervilles Topographical Perambulation and the Arboreal Margin Accumulating Prospects and Retrospective Reflection, Tess as Active Spectator Conclusion
Introduction Chapter One A Silvicultural Tradition Single Trees and Remarkable Specimens From Clumps to Forests: Trees in Combination Gilpin and the New Forest A Changing Woodscape: Preservation and Planting into the Nineteenth Century Chapter Two Arboreal Boundaries and Silvicultural 'Improvement' in the Literary Landscapes of Jane Austen Silvicultural Dynamism: Arboreal Conversations and Characterisations Trees, Improvement, and Maintaining Arboreal Boundaries Chapter Three The Presence and Absence of Trees in the Writings of Elizabeth Gaskell The Topographies of Trees in Libbie Marsh's Three Eras and Ruth 'delicious air' and the Green Belt in North and South Chapter Four Reading Ancient Trees and Arboreal Strata in The Woodlanders Arboreal Accumulation and the 'Billy Wilkins' Tree Reading Stratigraphical Woodscapes: The Intersection of Aesthetics and Geology Chapter Five 'Such is the Vale of Blackmoor': Navigating Trees, Memory, and Prospect in Tess of the D'Urbervilles Topographical Perambulation and the Arboreal Margin Accumulating Prospects and Retrospective Reflection, Tess as Active Spectator Conclusion
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