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A Fractured Landscape of Modernity - Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck (Hardcover)
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A Fractured Landscape of Modernity - Culture and Conflict in the Isle of Purbeck (Hardcover)
Series: Language, Discourse, Society
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The recent rise of 'new nature writing' has renewed the question of
how a landscape can be written. This book intervenes in this debate
by proposing innovative methodologies for writing place that
recognize and make use of the contradictions, fractures and
coincidences found in a modern landscape. In doing so, it develops
original readings of modernist artists and writers who were
associated with the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, including Vanessa
Bell, Paul Nash, Eric Benfield and Mary Butts. Their work is set
alongside embodied practices of leisure and labour such as sea
bathing, beachcombing, quarrying, tourism and scientific fieldwork,
as well as the material and geological features of the environment
with which such activities are allied. By showing the Isle of
Purbeck to be a site where versions of modernity were actively
generated and contested, the book contributes to a reassessment of
the significance of rural locations for English modernism.
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