In the Nature of Landscape : Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matless, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--England--Broads, The.

Human geography.

Landscapes--England--Broads, The.

Landscapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.

Summary:

In the Nature of Landscape presents regional cultural landscape as a new direction for research in cultural geography through an in-depth study of the Norfolk Broads, a wetland region in eastern England whose geography and history have been shaped for centuries by cohabiting and conflicting interests. Ideas of region, culture and landscape have been comprehensively re-theorised in recent decades, and are here brought together to produce a new understanding of the Broads in particular, and landscape in general. Contests over the region-from disputes over the origin of the broads (lakes) in the flooding of medieval peat diggings to projections of regional loss in a future of sea level rise under climate change-are addressed. Chapters pursue different dimensions of landscape, interweaving theoretical argument and in-depth empirical research to analyse narratives of landscape origin, debates over human conduct, animal and plant landscapes, and the spectre of the end of landscape through pollution and flood. An emphasis on different voices which have sought to speak for the region-from naturalists, tourists, planners and painters, to photographers, film-makers, folk singers and geographers-reveals the colloquial nature of landscape. By presenting an original cultural geographic study of a specific region, In the Nature of Landscape offers illuminating insights into the broader value and meaning of landscape in the 21 st century.

Contents:

Intro

In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads

Copyright

Contents

Series Editors' Preface

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chapter One Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads

A Geographical Visit

Outline

Landscape Colloquial, Culture Resounding

Scenic Governance

Regional Cultural Landscape

The Broadland Scene

Part I Broadland Scene

Chapter Two Origins

Broadland with the IBG (and RGS)

Origin in Transgression

Artifice Discovered

Artifice Disputed

An Equivalent Pool

New Broads

Chapter Three Conduct

Terry and Lydia

Regionally Self-Conscious: The Broads Discovered

Twentieth Century Pleasures

Policy Conduct

Icon I Wherry

Emblematic Sails

Norwich Vessels

Restorative

Broadland, South Kensington

Chapter Four Animal Landscapes

The Norfolk Room

Fauna Surveyed

Murder Most Fowl

Broadland Preserve

Species of Writing

Reserving Nature

The Public Animal

Icon and Intruder

Wings Conflicting

Chapter Five Plant Landscapes

Plant Cultures

Becoming a Scientific Region

Science on Tour

Two Yare Valley Scientists

Plant Life in Reserve

Marsh Harvest

Succession: Experiment in Landscape

Icon II Windmill

Mill Time

Wind Technology

New Sails

Chapter Six The Ends of Landscape

The Balance of Waters

The Death of Water

Broadland Drained

River Flood, Broadland Balance

Death by Water: Sea Flood

Broadland Sealand

Part II Broadland Signs

Chapter Seven Concluding

Definition: Regional Cultural Landscape

Provision: Geographic Particularity

Colloquial: A Geography of Voice

Six Vantage Points

Notes

Chapter One: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads

Chapter Two: Origins

Chapter Three: Conduct.

Icon I: Wherry

Chapter Four: Animal Landscapes

Chapter Five: Plant Landscapes

Icon II : Windmill

Chapter Six: The Ends of Landscape

Chapter Seven: Concluding

References

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-118-29568-4