Nature, the Modern and the Mystic
Tales from Early Twentieth Century Geography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8964261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Matless (0000-0002-7978-6346, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 272-272 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/622948 |
| OpenAlex | W2335483540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper explores the relationship between Geography, modernism and nature-mysticism in the early twentieth century through a detailed study of the writings of two geographers, Vaughan Cornish and Sir Francis Younghusband. It is argued that spiritual and mystical themes informed a significant part of modem Geography, yet that these have been largely ignored in geographical historiography. The themes of universalism, continuity and leadership in Cornish and Younghusband's attention to the mystical are examined, as are the 'risks' of such an attention for those concerned with the maintenance of order. Parallels are drawn between Cornish and Younghusband's modem spiritual Geography and contemporary 'Green' ideas, and the implications of this 'hidden' element of geographical modernism for the practice of a post-modem Geography are considered. It is argued that any such practice must attend to Geography's constitution as a very modem discipline of space and environment, and that any such attention should address the significant spiritual element in Geography's modernity
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Constitution · Cornish · Element (criminal law · Epistemology · Geography · Historical geography · Historiography · Human geography · Literature · Modernism (music · Modernity · Mysticism · Parallels · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Universalism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Law · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Delius and the Sound of Place
Moral geographies of english landscape
A Strange Cartography
Spatial rationalities
Bargaining with Nature
The enchanted path
Slidescapes
A liberal countryside? The Manchester Ramblers' Federation and the ‘social readjustment’ of urban citizens, 1929–1936
Balancing visions
Back To Basics
From Great Wen to Toad Hall
Topomystica
Teaching the history and philosophy of geography in British undergraduate courses
Beyond dualism – the social construction of nature and the natural and social construction of human beings
Crumbling land
What kind of landscape do we want? past, present and future perspectives
Poles Apart? The Terra Nova and Fram Antarctic Expeditions and Judeo-Christian Attitudes towards Nature
The English National Forest
Regional Surveys and Local Knowledges
Rooting diaspora, reviving nation
Fashioned in the light of physics
Human geography and the occult
Eugenics, fantasies of empire and inverted Whiggism
A Modern Stream
Ethics and Sustainability
A Conceptual Outline of Contemporary Magic Practice
Obdurate Pains, Transient Intensities
An Occasion for Geography
Memorial Trees and Treescape Memories
Witchcraft, spiritual worldviews and environmental management
Theatrical magic and the agenda to enchant the world
The heart of nature; or, The quest for natural beauty
The Idea of Race in Science
Yeats and Politics in the 1930s
Natural Beauty and Geographical Science
Neo-Lamarckism and the Development of Geography in the United States and Great Britain
Vaughan Cornish
Environmental Thought and Action
The Place of Folklore in a Regional Survey
National Parks and the Heritage of Scenery
"The Literary Impact of "The Golden Bough
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Beauties of Scenery
A Question of Place
Historic Thorn Trees in the British Isles
The Preservation of Our Scenery
Francis Younghusband
The Scenery of England
Geography's Empire
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,91 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |