Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and SocietyThis volume explores the relationship between siciety and the physical world through representation - the artistic re-creation of the physical world - which reflects interpretation. |
Contents
Wilderness | 5 |
The countryside | 28 |
City | 40 |
Introduction | 55 |
Townbirds of the English countryside | 57 |
Marching through wilderness | 91 |
Two varieties of peoples | 125 |
Introduction | 157 |
English novels | 159 |
The western | 178 |
Australian landscape painting | 197 |
Guide to further reading | 223 |
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Aboriginal art agrarian agriculture American areas Arthur Streeton artists attitudes Australia Australian landscape became become belief big cities Britain British Canberra capital celebration Cheyenne Autumn civilization colonial commercial contrast countryside criticism Crusoe culture desert dominant Drysdale early economic England English environment environmental ideologies Eugen von Guérard experience family farm farmers fear Figure film forest Fred Williams frontier Gallery garden Glover groups Guérard hero human ideas important Indians individual industrial island Jane Austen John Ford John Glover John Rennie labour land landscape painting living London Mansfield Park Melbourne modern moral movement movie myth nature nineteenth century noble savage novel Nuneham Courtenay pastoral pioneer political popular population romantic rural Russell Drysdale savage scene social society South Wales spiritual Stagecoach Streeton suburban suburbs Sydney symbol texts theme Tom Roberts town tradition transformed twentieth century urban village wild wilderness writing