Northern landscapes : representations and realities of North-East England

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Northern landscapes : representations and realities of North-East England

edited by Thomas Faulkner, Helen Berry and Jeremy Gregory

(Regions and regionalism in history, 12)

Boydell Press, 2010

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A rich, detailed and well-illustrated overview of the landscape of the North East of England. How distinctive is the landscape of the North East of England? How far does its distinctive nature contribute to the region's regional identity? These are key questions addressed by this book. Covering a wide range of subjects including country house landscapes, village landscapes and "townscapes", including coverage of how the region's landscape has been perceived and represented in literature and art, and approaching the subject from a wide range of perspectives including historical, literary, archaeological, art-historical and geographical, the book provides a rich, detailed and well-illustrated overview of the landscape of the North East of England. It demonstrates that this landscape is more subtle, layered and varied than is often supposed, and that stereotypes that the region is grimly industrial and dominated by coal-mining are wrong. Overall, besides much interesting detail and many new research findings, the book vividly evokes the landscapes and the spirit of place of the North East. Dr THOMAS FAULKNER is Visiting Fellow, School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle; Dr HELEN BERRY is Reader in Early Modern History, School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle; Dr JEREMY GREGORY is Senior Lecturer, Dept. Religions and Theology, University of Manchester. Contributors: S. M. COUSINS, A. W. PURDUE, S. A. CAUNCE, STEVEN DESMOND, JUDITH BETNEY, VERONICA GOULTY, FIONA GREEN, ADRIAN GREEN, WINIFRED STOKES, HILARY J. GRAINGER, MARTIN ROBERTS, GILLIAN COOKSON, THOMAS FAULKNER, LINDA POLLEY, HELEN BERRY, HUGH DIXON, JAN HEWITT, LAURA NEWTON.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Margaret Drabble Landscape and North-Eastern-ness - Jeremy Gregory The Prudhoe Landscape History Project: a Retrogressive Study of the Landscape History of Part of Southern Northumberland - Stephen M Cousins The Landed Estate and the Making of the Northumberland Landscape, 1700-1914 - A.W. Purdue Agriculture in North-Eastern England, 1750-1914 - Steven Caunce A Walk through Hardwick Gardens - Steven Desmond The Shadow in the Garden: Pleasure, Profit and Protection at Gibside, 1840-1860 - Judith Betney The Walled Garden: A Northumberland Perspective - Veronica Goulty Impolite Landscapes: Making Private Parks Public - Fiona Green Houses and Landscape in Early Industrial County Durham - The 'Raws': Housing the Durham Pitman in the Nineteenth Century - Winifred Stokes Crathorne Hall: The Making of an Edwardian Landscape - Hilary J Grainger From Defensive Moat to Romantic Landscape: the Riverbanks of the Durham Peninsula - Martin Roberts The Darlington Landscape - Urban Landscapes of Newcastle upon Tyne - Thomas Faulkner To Hell, Utopia and Back Again: Imagining the Urban Landscape of Middlesbrough - Linda Polley Landscape, Taste and National Identity: William Hutchinson's View of Northumberland (1776-78) - Helen M Berry Thomas Bewick and the North-Eastern Landscape - Hugh Dixon The 'Haven' and the 'Grisly Rokkes': Mary Linskill's Dangerous Landscapes and the Making of Whitby - Jan Hewitt Cullercoats: an Alternative North-Eastern Landscape? - Laura Newton

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