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Editorial Richard Muir With the passing of the years one may begin to recognise the near impossibility of saying anything original. There will be numerous occasions when one may imagine that originality has been achieved – only later to find that somebody said the same thing years or centuries before. When writing on the whole- someness of landscape interests in the last issue, I was vaguely aware that Jacquetta Hawkes had expressed similar feelings in A Land in 1951 – a book that merits much more recognition, if only for the literary quality of its evocation of the humankind/land relationship (Muir, 1997 & 1998). Sub- sequently, I have been reminded that during the inter-war period an enthusiasm for landscape was part of a cultural package of health- and heritage-related beliefs and pursuits that were judged to be wholesome. The reminder was contained in the book Landscape and Englishness by D. Matless, a geographer. An awakening awareness of the threats posed by urbanisation and modernism stimulated the development of a counter-culture in England that emphasised an organic interpretation of rural life and a reverence for traditional authority. Soil and authority were seemingly unlikely bedfellows in a vision of an organic England http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Editorial

Muir, Richard
Landscapes , Volume 3 (1): 3 – Apr 1, 2002
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2002 Maney
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
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10.1179/lan.2002.3.1.1
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Richard Muir With the passing of the years one may begin to recognise the near impossibility of saying anything original. There will be numerous occasions when one may imagine that originality has been achieved – only later to find that somebody said the same thing years or centuries before. When writing on the whole- someness of landscape interests in the last issue, I was vaguely aware that Jacquetta Hawkes had expressed similar feelings in A Land in 1951 – a book that merits much more recognition, if only for the literary quality of its evocation of the humankind/land relationship (Muir, 1997 & 1998). Sub- sequently, I have been reminded that during the inter-war period an enthusiasm for landscape was part of a cultural package of health- and heritage-related beliefs and pursuits that were judged to be wholesome. The reminder was contained in the book Landscape and Englishness by D. Matless, a geographer. An awakening awareness of the threats posed by urbanisation and modernism stimulated the development of a counter-culture in England that emphasised an organic interpretation of rural life and a reverence for traditional authority. Soil and authority were seemingly unlikely bedfellows in a vision of an organic England

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Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Apr 1, 2002

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