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A spacious horizon is an image of liberty

Artistic and literary representations of space and freedom in the English common field landscape in the face of Parliamentary Enclosure, 1810-1830

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ID5093483
AuthorsIan Waites (0000-0002-1781-6810, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume28
Issue3
Pages83-102
Publication date2004-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCapital & Class (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/030981680408400107
OpenAlexW1970301342
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

This article explores artistic representations and responses to the Parliamentary Enclosures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the literary work of John Clare and the paintings of Peter DeWint in depth. It highlights the competing cultural and political agendas of the time, the cultural meanings that common land and the rights of access to it held for common people, and the way the privatisation of common land dramatically affected their cultural lives. The article then draws some comparisons between the cultural politics of land and space from this period, and contemporary urban, spatial political movements such as Reclaim the Streets, in order to highlight its continued urgency and vitality

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cultural landscape · Economics · Enclosure · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vitality · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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Unique citing works1
Citations per year0,08
Citation span2013 - 2013 (1)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 1

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