Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New WorldUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 14. 6. 2002 - 299 strán (strany) Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed (e.g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is constituted through its people and established through time and precedence (e.g., land where our fathers died, land of the Pilgrims’ pride). Kenneth Robert Olwig’s extended exploration of these discourses is a masterful work of scholarship both broad and deep, which opens up new avenues of thinking in the areas of geography, literature, theater, history, political science, law, and environmental studies. |
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... garden was a common theme in the discourse of the time , as when Horace Walpole wrote of garden design : " Prospect , animated prospect , is the theatre that will always be the most frequented " ( Walpole [ 1782 ] 1943 , 34 ) . Gardens ...
... garden architect William Kent to " leap the fence " surrounding the garden , as Horace Walpole put it , and thereby to show " that all nature was a garden " ( Wal- pole [ 1782 ] 1943 , 25 ) . The corollary was that all the garden was ...
... Garden of Eden as a paradise . According to the Bible , humankind was born in this fertile orchard , which was watered by a river and grazed by various creatures . The Germanic word Garden , which is related to the Modern English word ...
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The Political Landscape as Polity and Place | 3 |
Country and Landscape | 43 |
Masquing the Body Politic of Britain | 62 |
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