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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"English Landscape"”.
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The genesis of English landscape etching
… the early twentieth century the tradition of English landscape etching had faded. Interest in etching had been, primarily, focused on the work of Rembrandt and nineteenth-century printmakers; landscape prints of the seventeenth century were all but forgotten. This dissertation shows that the …
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The high wasteland, scar, form, and monstrosity in the English landscape: what is the function of the monster in representations of the English landscape?
… my art practice, namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the project, but in general terms, I relate them to trauma as a …
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The High Wasteland, Scar, Form, and Monstrosity in the English Landscape: What Is the Function of the Monster in Representations of the English Landscape?
… my art practice, namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the project, but in general terms, I relate them to trauma as a …
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Space into Time: English Canals and English Landscape Painting 1760-1835
… of them that way. These choices have made the English canal system part of a pre-modern England, imagined just as the canals were being built. That England would always stand as "a living emblem" of itself remained for the most part uncontested (putting Cromwell to one side) until the …
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The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
… which aims to place the Isle of Wight in the English landscape. It examines the much discussed but problematic concept of ‘islandness’, identifying distinctive insular characteristics and determining their significance but also investigating internal landscape diversity. This is the first …
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Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan
… twenty-first- century novelists respond to the English landscape through their presentation of narrative and their experiments with novelistic form. Opening with a discussion of the English planning movement, "Narrative Topography" reveals how shifting perceptions of the structure of English …
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An Alternative Planting Treatment for Turf Open Spaces in Conservation Subdivisions
… open spaces are being created. The typical landscape treatment is usually reminiscent of the English Landscape School: acres of turf providing little wildlife habitat or environmental benefits. Many homeowners are sold on the idea of great expanses of turf similar to a golf course. The open …
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A 'long defence against the non-existent' : Englishness in the poetry of Phillip Larkin
Larkin's place in the genealogy of English poetry is significant since, unlike many of his predecessors, his work lacks the hope or possibility of redemption offered by faith. Larkin countered the void created by his agnosticism by appealing to the power both of ritual and of the English landscape, …
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Challenging the Nation: English Women's Novels, 1915-1927
… role in maintaining it. The white, middle-class, English woman's body emblematized Mother England and was the also site of intense anxiety about sexuality and national stability and supremacy. Woolf, Warner, and West penned their novels in the face of this rhetoric, recognizing the possibilities …
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Myth In Reception: Insights From Stourhead Gardens
… and artefacts, but also of copies encountered in English landscape gardens and elsewhere.
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Social marketing and public health: an ethnographic investigation
… Launched in 2008, Change4Life (C4L) is the English Department of Health’s first anti-obesity social marketing programme. C4L multimedia advertising is found throughout the English landscape, converting the built and virtual environment into a moral space. However, a key characteristic is the …
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Dairy Culture: Industry, Nature and Liminality in the Eighteenth-Century English Ornamental Dairy
… "polite" dairies, within the gardens of wealthy English estates arose during the latter half of the eighteenth century. These polite dairies were functional spaces in which aristocratic women engaged, to varying degrees, in bucolic tasks of skimming milk, churning and molding butter, and …
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Western Historical Gardens and Chinese Influences--From Great Britain to Picturesque Royal garden in Piedmont
… This dissertation traces the rise of the Landscape garden in England during the 1700s, and its gradual diffusion across France, Germany and Italy. The new style, in a certain degree, inspirited by Chinese classical garden which represented a return to nature and informality, marking a …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms