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Clarke, S. R. "Irish court tombs : structure, morphology and landscape setting." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438168.

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Cosgrove, Mary. "Paul Henry and Irish modernism." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243622.

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Nash, Catherine. "Landscape, body and nation : cultural geographies of Irish identities." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261470.

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McClelland, I. P. "Landscape and memory : Irish cultural transmission in Victoria (Australia), c. 1840-1901." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246344.

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Smith, Jos James Owen. "An archipelagic environment : rewriting the British and Irish landscape, 1972-2012." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/8183.

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This thesis explores a contemporary literary movement that has been called ‘the new nature writing’, framing it in its wider historical and cultural context of the last forty years. Drawing on recent developments in cultural geography, it explores the way such terms as ‘landscape’ and ‘place’ have been engaged with and reinterpreted in a diverse project of literary re-mapping in the British and Irish archipelago. It argues that the rise of environmentalism since the late 1960s has changed and destabilised the way the British and Irish relate to the world around them. It is, however, concerned with challenging the term ‘nature writing’ and argues that the literature of landscape and place of the last forty years is not solely concerned with ‘nature’, a term that has come under some degree of scrutiny recently. It sets out an argument for reframing this movement as an ‘archipelagic literature’ in order to incorporate the question of community. In understanding the present uncertainties that pervade the questions around landscape and place today it also considers the effects of such political changes as the partial devolution of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on the British and Irish relationship to the land. The literature that it takes as its subject often explores the way personal and communal senses of identity have found a renewed focus in a critical localism in opposition to more footloose forms of globalisation. Through a careful negotiation of Marxist and phenomenological readings of landscape, it offers an overview of what is a considerable body of literature now and what is developing into one of the most consistent and defined literary movements of the twenty-first century.
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Cross, Sarah. "Changing places : landscape and mortuary practice in the Irish Middle Bronze Age /." *McMaster only, 2000.

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Johnson, Neal. "From Malvern to the Irish Sea : Early Bronze Age round barrows in a border landscape." Thesis, University of Worcester, 2015. http://eprints.worc.ac.uk/4307/.

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his thesis explores Early Bronze Age round barrows in a distinctive landscape, the Anglo-Welsh borderland. It is a landscape of contrasts, encompassing the lowlands and plains of the Midlands counties to the east and the uplands of the west. Although the region has been recognised as a valid unit of study, many previous studies have been constrained by national and county boundaries. Recent research on the prehistoric archaeology of the region has addressed this problem but until now the area’s round barrows have received little attention. This thesis se rves to redress this imbalance and considers round barrows in their historic and regional context. A multi-scalar approach to the study has been taken. At the macro scale, the morphology, distribution and broad topographic settings are examined in addition to an analysis of factors relating to the survival and destruction of the regions barrows. It is argued that the location of the borderlands may have led to some of the distinct architectural elements present in the region. For the most part, round barrows in the study area do not coalesce in to large cemeteries as seen elsewhere; the general pattern being that of isolated or paired barrows, yet relatively dense clusters have been identified. These are analysed at the meso scale to establish the relationships of barrows within these clusters to each other, to earlier monumentality and to the wider landscape. Here it is suggested that different rationales led to their formation, in some instances rep resenting different communities’ access to resources and routeways. The analysis then proceeds at the micro - scale and considers the problem of why build a round barrow in the first place. By examining a single, well excavated site of two barrows in close proximity with a reasonable degree of contemporaneity, it is possible to mitigate against certain variables to explore the role of choice when a community built a barrow. The role of deposition, including that of human remains is considered and it is argued that such practices were strategies to effect change within the world of the living.
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Dargan, Pat. "Conquest and urban consolidation : an investigation into plan development and burgage patterns in Anglo-Norman Ireland." Thesis, University of East London, 1996. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1280/.

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During the twelfth and thirteenth-centuries, Ireland experienced a large-scale urbanization movement, initiated as part of the Anglo-Norman conquest and colonization of the island. As part of this process, old settlements were re-modelled and promoted; and an extensive network of new towns were planted across the Irish medieval landscape. This dissertation examines the development of this colonial urbanization movement with particular reference to the urban planning aspects of the process. Volume I, considers the origins, influences, and ideals of the Anglo-Norman town builders, as well as the morphogenetic, spatial and distributive characteristics of their endeavors. In addition, the current level of scholarship on the subject is highlighted and discussed. Volume II, focuses on a series of typical Anglo-Norman town foundations, where the origins, plan and burgage development patterns are explored in depth, through the techniques of plan and metrological analysis.
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Brennan, Carmel. "Wetland vegetation dynamics and management in the Irish agricultural landscape of the Lough Erne region, Co. Fermanagh." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428631.

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The study area comprises landscape units 1 and 2 of the Fermanagh District, corresponding to the Upper and Lower Lough Erne. Recent changes in the area and distribution of Agriculture and crops, Semi-natural vegetation and Woodland and scrub land cover in the study area were assessed. Land cover analysis showed the temporal change in wetland land cover types in the study area between the periods 1991 – 1998 and compares trends in landscape units 1 and 2 with trends in Northern Ireland and the Fermanagh District. A high loss of Semi-natural vegetation and in particular Species-rich wet grassland was the dominant land cover change issue. Land cover transitions for this period indicated a change from extensive to intensive agricultural grassland. Analysis of land cover transitions for the 1998 – 2002/3 period suggested that this trend has slowed in recent years. A high frequency of reversion from the more intensive grassland type, Other agricultural grassland, to low quality Species-rich wet grassland was recorded. The area of other wetland land cover types has remained relatively stable and only a small number of transitions were recorded between these land cover types during both periods. A stratified random sampling programme recorded the species composition of wetland and related wet agricultural grassland land cover types in relation to environment, management and landscape variables. The land cover type recorded were: Species-rich wet grassland, Poor fen, Fen, Reedbed, Swamp, Fen carr and Other agricultural grassland. Multivariate ordination and classification were used to investigate the compositional gradient of the wetlands. Analysis showed that the species composition of land cover types was not discrete but overlapped to form a continuous compositional gradient with Swamp and Other agricultural grassland representing the extremes of the gradient. Comparisons are made with similar wetland communities in Great Britain and Ireland. Species-rich wet grassland parcels were negatively correlated with the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (agri-environment scheme) variable, indicating that the introduction of ESA schemes may not be the principal driving force for the reversion of Other agricultural grassland to Species-rich wet grassland. Other potential factors responsible for land cover change are discussed including seasonal variation in weather, socio-economic changes in agriculture and management practices. The wetlands of landscape units 1 and 2 of Fermanagh District contribute substantially to UK wetland resources. The results indicate that there is high potential for enhancing this resource through habitat gains in Species-rich wet grassland and thereby contributing to achieving UK Biodiversity targets.
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Porter, J. "'From topphole to bottom of the Irish race and world' : Landscape and mysticism in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375134.

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Fernández, Arce Francisca. "Musicalised language and the evolving landscape: towards an aural articulation of the poetical Irish soundscape in W.B. Yeats' poetry." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2017. http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/147893.

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MacConville, Una. "Mapping a social landscape : an exploration of lay and professional understandings of a 'good death' and palliative care in an Irish setting." Thesis, University of Bath, 2004. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404710.

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This research has explored lay and professional understandings of a 'good death' and the spiritual dimension of care within a hospice in Ireland, and the extent to which culture shaped understanding. Palliative care has been largely developed in the UK and the U.S, societies with a strong emphasis on individualism, which is not present to the same extent in Ireland. No previous research has considered these aspects within palliative care in Ireland. The research has utilised a cartographic approach - as an organising principle, as a methodological approach and as a way of understanding the relationship between the individual and social aspects of a 'good death'. Death is an individual and a social experience in which family considerations and religious or spiritual beliefs play an important part. A central theme of relationship emerged in this research - relationships between the organisation, professional staff, the patient and the family all formed elements of a 'good death'. Spiritual care was considered as a role of accompaniment facilitated by a personal relationship between staff and the patient. Relationships were also shaped by the 'manners' of social engagement, and the location of care - at home, in the day care centre and in the inpatient unit - was influential. Palliative care professionals were visitors in the patient's home, and the patient and the family were visitors in the hospice. The person-centred approach of palliative care aided the formation of relationships; however, it also raised questions about their nature. This research has focused on the fine lines between aspects such as being person-centred and being too personal, between privacy and intrusion, observation and surveillance, communication and interrogation, and accompaniment and being led. The relationships between health care professionals and patients and family members have a cultural and historical specificity and these aspects have been explored.
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Gibson, Jordan Leigh Russell Richard Rankin. "Through the lens of the land changing identity in the novels of Bernard MacLaverty /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5250.

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Richmond, Andrew Murray. "Reading Landscapes in Medieval British Romance." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1428671857.

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McMullen, Albert Joseph. "Echoes of Early Irish Influence in Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467346.

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This study traces the cultural interplay between Irish and Old English literary landscapes. Combining an ecocritical approach to reading representations of the landscape with a comparatist perspective, each chapter shows that the landscape and the natural world were not only static motifs, but that they allow for the observation of literary influence. The first chapter investigates the political use of the landscape in Irish and Anglo-Saxon saints’ Lives. I argue that the anonymous author of the Life of Cuthbert was following a common Irish hagiographic practice of using place-names to claim churches, monasteries, or lands for the writer’s monastic foundation. Furthermore, Bede was aware of this agenda when he rewrote the Life of Cuthbert some twenty years later and consciously removed many of the place-names that localize Cuthbert’s miracles and ministrations from the text. The second chapter compares the use of the natural world in the Old English Boethius to early Irish cosmological treatises. The Old English translator diverges from Boethius in the amplification of cosmological details (e.g., information about the universe and the elements) that have distinct analogues in early Irish sources. The third chapter examines Grendel’s mere in Beowulf as a reflex of the bog of Germanic pre-Christian worship and as a place which draws on imagery common to insular sources pertaining to hell. Reading the mere as an overlay landscape that places pagan past and Christian present in apposition, I argue that this layered landscape is analogous to landscapes in early Irish poetry and saga. In my final chapter, I explore the paradisiacal landscapes presented in Guthlac A and The Phoenix. These descriptions closely parallel representations of paradise in Irish tradition, especially in contemporaneous Irish poetry. Additionally, like early Irish writers, the Old English poets appropriate the landscape of Eden to reflect and emphasize the spiritual state of the monastic. While scholars have often noted connections between early Irish and Anglo-Saxon literature—though few concerning the representation of the landscape or the natural world—this project is the first study to address the influence of early Irish literary landscapes in Old English works. As such, my dissertation holds the potential to redefine ways of thinking about the transmission of influence between these two early medieval cultures. I show that the landscape and the natural world loomed large in early insular literature in ways that have gone unrecognized, while also providing a model to track the paths of literary influence. My investigations revise the received wisdom about Anglo-Saxon literary landscapes, while contributing to a body of scholarship concerned with connections between early Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England.
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Bareham, Gareth. "Modelling the ecological structure of scrub in enclosed western Irish landscapes." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414991.

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Fraser, Shannon Marguerite. "Physical, social and intellectual landscapes in the Neolithic contextualizing Scottish and Irish Megalithic architecture /." Thesis, Connect to e-thesis, 1996. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/787/.

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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 1996.
BLL : DX192053. Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Faculty of Art, Department of Archaeology, University of Glasgow, 1996. Includes bibliographical references. Print copy also available.
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Segura, Laura S. "Down the Garden Path| The Gardens and Natural Landscapes of Anne and Charlotte Bronte." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10680834.

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Victorian culture was constantly engaging with nature and garden imagery. In this thesis, I argue that the literary gardens of Anne and Charlotte Brontë function as a trope that enables an examination of nineteenth-century social concerns; these literary gardens are a natural space that serve as a “middle ground” between the defense of traditional social conventions and the utter disregard of them. In Agnes Grey (1847), Jane Eyre (1847), and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) the female characters have significant encounters within the gardens and outdoor spaces; Agnes, Jane, and Helen venture into these environments and emerge changed—whether by experiential knowledge or from the temptation of social and moral transgression. In AG, Anne Brontë uses the image of the garden and natural landscapes, in order to explore Agnes’s education within her governessing experience. In JE, the garden functions as a space that appears to offer Jane a reprieve from the Gothic terror of the house, yet it actually extends that influence. The entire estate is a literal boundary point for Jane in her life, but it also represents the metaphorical barrier between Jane and potential social transgression—one that she must navigate because of her romance with Rochester. In Tenant, the house, the garden, and the landscape symbolize Helen’s identity, as the widowed artist Mrs. Graham, an identity that only exists during her time at Wildfell. Helen’s identity as a professional female artist living in a wild landscape accentuates Gilbert’s sexual desire towards her. Anne Brontë critiques Victorian marriage and class expectations through Helen’s final circumvention of social rules. In these novels, the scenes in the gardens and natural landscapes serve as a way for these authors to engage with the complexities of “The Woman Question” through the characterization of the governess and the artist.

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Cappel, Morgan Morgan. "Indigenous Ghosts and Haunted Landscapes: The Anglo-Indian Colonial Gothic Fiction of B.M. Croker and Alice Perrin." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524597175648086.

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Motzke, Iris Cordula Verfasser], Teja [Akademischer Betreuer] Tscharntke, Alexandra-Maria [Akademischer Betreuer] [Klein, and Yann [Akademischer Betreuer] Clough. "Local management and landscape context effects on bee pollination, ant seed predation, and yield in Indonesian homegardens / Iris Cordula Motzke. Gutachter: Teja Tscharntke ; Alexandra-Maria Klein ; Yann Clough. Betreuer: Teja Tscharntke." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1068056258/34.

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Lowe, Charles David. "The geography of silence: Women in landscape in Thomas Hardy's fiction." 2001. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3000320.

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My dissertation considers the influence of nineteenth-century science and culture on the representations of women in Thomas Hardy's popular fiction. My research builds on recent Hardy scholarship on gender relations to examine the cultural and scientific developments of the period both that inform Hardy's experimental style of narration and that explain how his representations of women in some cases fascinated and offended his sophisticated reading public. My opening chapter studies the responses of nineteenth-century literary journalists to Hardy's early novels as a critical influence on the formation of his experience narrative practices. This specialized audience developed divergent codes of realism, based on their own understandings of Victorian science and religion, in order to evaluate Hardy's first commercially successful work, Far from the Madding Crowd. In response to the criticisms of this audience, Hardy sought to complicate the experimental treatment of heroine in his later fiction. My second chapter probes into the contribution of Hardy's first career as a Gothic architect to the style of representation in The Return of the Native. I study a little noticed allusion in Hardy's novel to the diorama. I argue that Hardy most likely gained an awareness of Gothic architecture, and I examine carefully the relation between his allusion to the diorama and a broad thematic interest with the science of reading her story. My third chapter gives attention to the role of his architectural and professional backgrounds in informing his engagement with the developments of nineteenth-century sciences in Two on a Tower. I depart from other readings of the novel, by identifying not only allusions to Victorian astronomy but also references in the novel to the works of nineteenth-century scientists including Darwin and Cuvier. In my fourth chapter, I observe closely the heroine's idiosyncratic speech patterns in Tess of the d'Urbervilles as indicative of Hardy's scientifically influenced preoccupation with the development of linguistic practices and literary traditions. At the close of my dissertation, I broaden my analysis to the relation between Hardy's seductive treatment of his heroine and those of other writers in the fin de siècle.
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Barber, Natalie. "The Way They Never Were: Nationalism, Landscape, and Myth in Irish Identity Construction." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/rs_theses/47.

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The fairy figure has had a long association with Ireland in popular cultural discourse. While often the source of children's fairy tales, their history in Ireland is far from kitsch. Their enduring association with the Irish has been one of adaptation in the face of colonialism and is linked to the land itself as well as Irish identity. The Gaelic Revival and emerging field of archaeology in the nineteenth century pulled from a strong tradition of myth and storytelling to craft a narrative of authentic Irishness that could resist the English culturally and spiritually. This paper explores the relationship between nationalism, landscape, and mythology that created a space that the fairy survived in as a product of colonial resistance and identity.
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Dynan, Loretta Mary. "Forging an identity on Central Victoria’s colonial landscape: Patrick Cooke and the Irish influence 1845-1903." Thesis, 2021. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/43469/.

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This thesis analyses the impact of life experience on Irish settlement patterns in colonial Victoria. It represents the first scholarly analysis of a settler farmer in the Pyalong district. The thesis focuses on how Irish settler Patrick Cooke adapted successfully to life in the Antipodes and how he forged a relationship with the land on which he settled. The significance of the study goes beyond one individual’s experience of late-nineteenth colonial settlement. With emphasis on the spatial connection between people and place, it provides new insights into the relationship of individuals to the geographical space they inhabited during settlement in inland Victoria. The thesis draws on extensive Irish and Australian research data, to locate Cooke’s life in the context of Australia and Ireland, the places in which he lived. By focusing on an underresearched rural district in central Victoria it furthers historical understanding of colonial settlement and shows how Irish immigrants redefined themselves and gave meaning to their lives in their new land.
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Harrower, Natalie Dawn. "The Performance of Critical History in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Film." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/17769.

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This dissertation examines theatre and film in Ireland between 1988 and 2005, focusing on the plays of Sebastian Barry and Marina Carr, as well as a select group of films from this period. Employing a method of analysis that couples close-readings with attention to socio-cultural context, aesthetic form, and issues of representation, the dissertation demonstrates how theatre and film work to complicate conventional Irish historical narratives and thereby encourages a reassessment of contemporary constructs of Irish identity. The introduction provides a contextual framework for significant contemporaneous social, cultural and economic changes in Ireland, and includes a case study of ‘The Spire,’ a monument unveiled on Dublin’s central boulevard in 2003, which I argue is the architectural metonym for the transitional nature of Celtic Tiger Ireland. The case study explores the aesthetics of the monument, as well as the politicised public debate that ensued, and thereby provides a snapshot of issues relevant to the readings pursued in dissertation’s remaining chapters. The discussion of Sebastian Barry’s ‘family plays’ reveals the playwright’s effort to refuse traditional binary conceptions of identity and to proffer, instead, a dramatic landscape that similarly refuses to allow conflict to dominate. Barry’s use of a non-conflictual dramatic form supports his narrative interest in compassion and peaceful resolution, and provides a model for living with otherness that could prove useful in an increasingly diverse and globalised Ireland. Marina Carr’s plays share Barry’s desire to represent aspects of Irish character anew, but they also dramatise how cultural transitions are difficult and never linear, and how the conventional pull of memory and the past has a residual presence in the ‘new’ Ireland. Taken together, these chapters reveal Barry’s hopefulness as an antidote to Carr’s tragic endings. The final chapter provides close readings of several ‘Celtic Tiger’ films, arguing that the representation of landscape is the key lens through which Irish film communicates shifting images of Irish identity. A cycle of films from the first years of the new millennium ekes out a space for new modes of representation through a critical dialogue with major tropes in Irish film history.
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McArthur, Elizabeth Andrews. "Narrative Topography: Fictions of Country, City, and Suburb in the Work of Virginia Woolf, W. G. Sebald, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ian McEwan." Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D89Z9BV7.

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This dissertation analyzes how twentieth- and early twenty-first- century novelists respond to the English landscape through their presentation of narrative and their experiments with novelistic form. Opening with a discussion of the English planning movement, "Narrative Topography" reveals how shifting perceptions of the structure of English space affect the content and form of the contemporary novel. The first chapter investigates literary responses to the English landscape between the World Wars, a period characterized by rapid suburban growth. It reveals how Virginia Woolf, in Mrs. Dalloway and Between the Acts, reconsiders which narrative choices might be appropriate for mobilizing and critiquing arguments about the relationship between city, country, and suburb. The following chapters focus on responses to the English landscape during the present era. The second chapter argues that W. G. Sebald, in The Rings of Saturn, constructs rural Norfolk and Suffolk as containing landscapes of horror--spaces riddled with sinkholes that lead his narrator to think about near and distant acts of violence. As Sebald intimates that this forms a porous "landscape" in its own right, he draws attention to the fallibility of representation and the erosion of cultural memory. The third chapter focuses on Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, a novel in which a cloned human being uses descriptions of landscape to express and, more often, to suppress the physical and emotional pain associated with her position in society. By emphasizing his narrator's proclivity towards euphemism and pastiche, Ishiguro intimates that, in an era of mechanical and genetic reproduction, reliance on perspectives formed in past and imagined futures can be quite deadly. The fourth chapter analyzes Ian McEwan's post 9/11 novel, Saturday--a reworking of Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. In reading these two novels side-by-side, it reveals how London, its suburbs, and the English countryside might be imagined differently in the contemporary consciousness. Together these chapters investigate why novelistic treatments of the English landscape might interest contemporary readers who live outside England (and/or read these works in translation), especially during an era in which the English landscape has ceased to function as the real or metaphorical center of empire.
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