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A Dream of England John Taylor

A Dream of England By John Taylor

A Dream of England by John Taylor


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Summary

This work explores English society and its relationship to the landscape, as seen through photography and tourism over the last 100 years. The major tourist venues are covered, including Stonehenge, National Trust houses, the Lake District and Shakespeare country.

A Dream of England Summary

A Dream of England by John Taylor

This work explores English society and its relationship to the landscape, as seen through photography and tourism over the last 100 years. The major tourist venues are covered, including Stonehenge, National Trust houses, the Lake District and Shakespeare country. A variety of photographs are included in the book, from Victorian pastoral scenes and Emerson's views of Norfolk, to instant snaps of historic tourist sites and Martin Parr's images of end-of-the-century society. Taylor shows how the British frame their aspirations through their approach to photography of the English landscape and their feelings about the past. Despite persistent efforts to remake England, and to preserve its perceived unity through photographic images, a fragmented society is exposed, raising issues of national identity, gender and race.

Table of Contents

Landscape record and reverie; Shakespeare land; travellers, tourists and trippers on the Norfolk Broads; England as a reliable make; documentary raids and rebuffs; history under fire; at home with Fox Talbot; pleasures of the imagination; wastes and boundaries.

Additional information

GOR003740973
9780719037245
0719037247
A Dream of England by John Taylor
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
19940721
344
N/A
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