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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... PROGRESS The centralization of state power at the court of the capital city allowed for a form of progress which was very different from the circuitous pro- gress that monarchs had been forced to make in order to manifest their es- tate ...
... progress of this new breed of men , under the mild sunny guidance of the Stuarts , that would bring about the progress of the state as expressed in Inigo Jones's landscape scenery . This kind of thinking lies perilously close to one of ...
... progress depended upon the presence of the " wild . " But once progress had transformed the wild , then progress would cease and civilization would again move west , following the sun . The solution to this paradox , for Thoreau , was ...
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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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