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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... visions of a return to an edenic egalitarian age , the Stuart court ideal tended to spawn utopian visions of an approaching renaissance of a mythical golden age under a god king . In this vision , the king becomes a creature which God ...
... vision of a cranberry meadow at " Spauld- ing's farm . " It is as if " some ancient and altogether admirable and shining family had settled there in that part of the land called Concord , unknown to me , —to whom the sun was servant ...
... vision , by each and every individual . This vision , like that of Jefferson , begged to be given physical pictorial form . Just as Jefferson's vision helped stimulate a national genre of painting , Emerson and Thoreau's helped pro- pel ...
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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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