Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World Format:Paperback ISBN-13: 9780231140652

ISBN-13: 9780231140652

Author: Ann Cooper

inter-generational story that celebrates the ties that bind

Author: David Foenkinos

Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britain's Renaissance to America's New World Format:Paperback ISBN-13: 9780231140652Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic explores the origins and lasting influences of two contesting but intertwined discourses that persist today when we use the words landscape, country, scenery, nature, national. In the first sense, the land is a physical and bounded body of terrain upon which the nation state is constructed (e. g., the purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain, from sea to shining sea). In the second, the country is