Routes, Roads and Landscapes |
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| Author:
| Larsen, Janike Kampevold
Brenna, Brita |
| Editor:
| Hvattum, Mari |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4094-0820-8 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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A multi-discipinary team of leading scholars have come together in this volume to examine routes, landscapes, and the many ways in which they are entangled. The collection traces changing conceptions of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present by looking at routes and roads: how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented, and how such movement in turn has conditioned our understanding of the landscape. At a time when ideas of mobility and motion and the study of...
More DescriptionA multi-discipinary team of leading scholars have come together in this volume to examine routes, landscapes, and the many ways in which they are entangled. The collection traces changing conceptions of the landscape from the Enlightenment to the present by looking at routes and roads: how movement has been facilitated, imagined and represented, and how such movement in turn has conditioned our understanding of the landscape. At a time when ideas of mobility and motion and the study of landscape are central to so many disciplines, this multi-faceted collection focuses on the often over-looked overlaps between them.