Envisioning England
The Visual in Countryside Writing in the 1930s and 1940s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8096059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Brace (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 365-382 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Landscape Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-6397 • E-ISSN: 1469-9710 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0142639032000150121 |
| OpenAlex | W2067156081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
The dust-jacket art, photographs and end-paper maps used in books published by B.T. Batsford Ltd in the 1930s and 1940s are examined. Drawing on work on landscape representation, publishing history and the history of geographic thought, the ways in which the visual arts associated with countryside writing constitute forms of popular geographic knowledge are explored. It is suggested that more attention should be paid to the ways in which some apparently non-academic, creative and imaginative processes of envisioning landscape inform, and are themselves informed by, an academic discourse—in this case geography—which continually asserts a claim to speak authoritatively of, and for, landscape
Aesthetics · Art · Creative writing · Literature · Political science · Publishing · Representation (politics · Rural area · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Rural development and sustainability · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |