Fabricating Lureland : : A History of the Imagination and Memory of Peacehaven, a Speculative Interwar Garden City Development by the Sea /

Fabricating Lureland : : A History of the Imagination and Memory of Peacehaven, a Speculative Interwar Garden City Development by the Sea / / Julia Winckler.

Through the analysis of surviving archival traces, this book constructs a history of the imagination and memory of the town of Peacehaven. Built as a speculative development atop iconic chalk cliffs on the Sussex Coast and marketed as a garden city by the sea, the estate quickly attracted adverse pu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
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Winckler, Julia,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIII, 407 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Abstract
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory
  • Chapter 2. ‘Own your own bit of England’: Peacehaven’s genesis refracted through British town planning ideals
  • Chapter 3. Tracking the visual programme of the Peacehaven Post through the magazine’s first volume
  • Chapter 4. ‘No shackles of old tradition to bind her’: The Estate’s emerging topography in the photographs of Joseph James Hill and Frank Parks, 1921–1923
  • Chapter 5. ‘This Blessed Plot, this other Eden’: The Greater Peacehaven development refracted through local and national protests against speculative development from 1923 onward
  • Chapter 6. Reading shifting perspectives of Peacehaven 1923–1939 across local guidebooks and other promotional material
  • Chapter 7. Peacehaven as memory-space: Intergenerational conversations with long-time residents
  • Chapter 8. Evoking Lureland: Site-marking and site-writing the pioneer bungalows of Peacehaven
  • Chapter 9. Visions of Lureland survive as allegory
  • Primary archival material and archival sources
  • Appendix 1. Brief Peacehaven timeline overview
  • Appendix 2. Brief biographies of SCLRC staff, Peacehaven Post editorial contributors, early publicists and notable residents
  • Appendix 3. Biographies of interviewees
  • Index

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