English topographies in literature and culture : : space, place, and identity / / edited by Ina Habermann, Daniela Keller.

• Superior document: Spatial Practices : An Interdisciplinary Series in Cultural History Geography and Literature, Volume 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Habermann, Ina, 1965-; Keller, Daniela,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial practices ; Volume 23.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; English Topographies: Introduction /; The Making of Edgelands /; “Untranslated landscape”: Recent Poetic Prose of Kathleen Jamie and Paul Farley/Michael Symmons Roberts /; Wilderness Effects and Wild Affects in uk Nature/Travel Writing /; Running Rings Round London: Psychogeography in Iain Sinclair’s London Orbital /; Bleak London: (Neo-)Dickensian Psychogeographies /; British Suburban Sitcoms and Television Heritage: The Good Life and Keeping Up Appearances /; Brontё Soundscapes: The Role of Soundtracks in Adaptations of Wuthering Heights in Brontё Heritage Discourses /; Topographies of Detection: Literary Tourism, English Heritage and the Making of Agatha Christie Country /; From Cityscapes of the Past to Brave New Worlds of the Present – Heritage and the Politics of Urban Revitalization /; Spatial Practices of Eighteenth-century Domestic Travellers and the Idea of the Nation /; Reinforcing Local Identities through Landmarks and Their Representations in En-passant-media. The Special Case of the Angel of the North /; Domestic Garden Landscapes of Memory, Mortality and Beyond /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISBN: 9004322272
• ISSN: 1871-689X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Ina Habermann, Daniela Keller.

English Topographies in Literature and Culture takes a spatial approach to the study of English culture. In order to gain a fresh perspective on constructions of English cultural identity, the collection treats geography, social spaces and spatial practices as well as representations of space and place as complex constellations termed ‘cultural topographies’. Individual contributions focus on writing landscapes, London psychogeography, heritage discourses, urban planning, and idiosyncratic spatial practices such as suburban gardening. In line with the ‘affective turn’, the investigated cultural topographies transcend the dichotomy between the material and the immaterial through embodiment and embeddedness, displaying a ‘new sensitivity’ in textual, visual and aural representations that seek to transcend an anthropocentric perspective. Space thus emerges as both political and shaped by affect.