Empty spaces : : perspectives on emptiness in modern history / / edited by Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine, and Jennifer Keating.
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discur...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 210 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : confronting emptiness in history / Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating
- 1. 'Take my advice, go to Morgan's Hotel' : barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape / Kevin J. James
- 2. Amid the horrors of nature : 'dead' environments at the margins of the Russian empire / Jennifer Keating
- 3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation : the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chave's cross-country flights in 1912 / Leonie Schuster
- 4. Looking over the ship railings : the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters / Tricia Cusack
- 5. Spectral figures : Edward Hopper's empty Paris / Emily C. Burns
- 6. Landscapes of loss : the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction / Martin Walter
- 7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London c. 1945-95 / Krystallia Kamvasinou and Sarah Ann Milne
- 8. Urban prehistoric enclosures : empty spaces/busy places / Kenneth Brophy.