The Invention of the English Landscape: c. 1700-1939

Cover
Contents
List of illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Revealing the early modern landscape
	Exploration and tourism
	The discovery of the natural landscape
	Exploring the human landscape
3 Ideas and representations
	The Reformation
	The Enlightenment
	Romanticism
	Representations
4 Reconfiguring the landscape
	Ideas
	Cultural media
	Production and performance
	Reception
5 New geographies and topographies
	Imagined spaces
	Town: Grey space
	Country: Green space
	Water: Blue space
	Frameworks of spaces
6 Timescapes
	Landscapes of memory and myth; stories and landscape
	Deep history: Geology and natural history
	Pre-history
	Recent pasts and competing pasts
	Old towns and villages
	Landscape as modernism; the modernist seaside and countryside
7 Economic and social change
	Industrialization
	Urbanization
	Leisure
8 The transport revolution and the journey
	The transport revolution and recreational travel
	Walking
	Experiencing the journey
9 Identities
	Landscape, identities and nation
	The British paradox
	Race and empire
	Religion, class and gender
10 Conclusion: The Second World War and beyond
	The Second World War
	Modernity and the post-war decades
	Towards the millennium and beyond
Select bibliography
Index