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Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960

Name: Lifescapes: The Experience of Landscape in Britain, 1870-1960
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009199872
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Contributors:

Jeremy Burchardt

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Biography & Autobiography

Book Subcategory:

Europe

Book Topic:

Great Britain

Series:

Modern British Histories

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Release Date:

2023-07-13

ISBN 13:

9781009199872

Weight:

2 lbs

Size:

9.06 x 6.06 x 1.57 inches

Pages:

518

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Why does landscape matter to us? We rarely articulate the often highly individual ways it can do so. Drawing on eight remarkable unpublished diaries, Jeremy Burchardt demonstrates that responses to landscape in modern Britain were powerfully affected by personal circumstances, especially those experienced in childhood and youth. Four major patterns are identified: 'Adherers' valued landscape for its continuity, 'Withdrawers' for the refuge it provides from perceived threats, 'Restorers' for its sustaining of core value systems, and 'Explorers' for its opportunities for self-discovery and development. Lifescapes sets out a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography and deep contextualization, which has far-reaching implications. It foregrounds family structures and relationships and the psychological dynamics they generate. These, it is argued, were usually a more decisive presence in landscape encounters than wider cultural patterns and forces. Seen in this way, landscape can be understood as a mirror reflecting our innermost selves and the psychosocial influences shaping our development. This is a compelling and original study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes.