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Fabricating Lureland : a history of the imagination and memory of peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea / Julia Winckler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winckler, Julia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peacehaven (East Sussex, England).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (422 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]
- Summary:
- Through the analysis of surviving archival traces, this book constructs a history of the imagination and memory of the town of Peacehaven.Built as a speculative development atop iconic chalk cliffs on the Sussex Coast and marketed as a garden city by the sea, the estate quickly attracted adverse publicity.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1. Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory
- Chapter 2. 'Own your own bit of England': Peacehaven's genesis refracted through British town planning ideals
- Chapter 3. Tracking the visual programme of the Peacehaven Post through the magazine's first volume
- Chapter 4. 'No shackles of old tradition to bind her': The Estate's emerging topography in the photographs of Joseph James Hill and Frank Parks, 1921-1923
- Chapter 5. 'This Blessed Plot, this other Eden': The Greater Peacehaven development refracted through local and national protests against speculative development from 1923 onward
- Chapter 6. Reading shifting perspectives of Peacehaven 1923-1939 across local guidebooks and other promotional material
- Chapter 7. Peacehaven as memory-space: Intergenerational conversations with long-time residents
- Chapter 8. Evoking Lureland: Site-marking and site-writing the pioneer bungalows of Peacehaven
- Chapter 9. Visions of Lureland survive as allegory
- Primary archival material and archival sources
- Appendix 1. Brief Peacehaven timeline overview
- Appendix 2. Brief biographies of SCLRC staff, Peacehaven Post editorial contributors, early publicists and notable residents
- Appendix 3. Biographies of interviewees
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Winckler, Julia Fabricating Lureland
- ISBN:
- 3-11-073402-8
- OCLC:
- 1289370530
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