Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Landscapes of Loss: Moorlands, Manliness and the First World War

Landscapes of Loss: Moorlands, Manliness and the First World War AbstractThis article focuses on the Dark Peak area of the Peak District. It discusses how moorlands such as Kinder (Plate 7), the region's highest point, came to represent, in the years before 1914, a form of stoical manliness, whose meanings were, for some male ramblers, nuanced in new ways by the immense losses of the First World War. It considers how walking in such an environment helped mediate the expression of emotion, which was usually constrained by contemporary expectations of manliness, and suggests how Kinder's bleak moorlands acquired a particular resonance between 1914–18 because of their resemblance to the battle landscape of trench warfare. This emotional dimension has been neglected in studies of access struggles, in which the political has received most attention, and has been similarly passed over by scholars of the First World War, who have tended to concentrate on memorials and commemorative symbols. The article draws, especially, upon the works of G. H. B. Ward, one of the most influential writers on this part of the Peak District, whose writings reveal the urban standpoint of walkers from the Sheffield side of the region. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Landscapes of Loss: Moorlands, Manliness and the First World War

Landscapes , Volume 5 (2): 15 – Oct 1, 2004
15 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/landscapes-of-loss-moorlands-manliness-and-the-first-world-war-WSUGLop2XV

References (41)

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
© 2004 Maney
ISSN
2040-8153
eISSN
1466-2035
DOI
10.1179/lan.2004.5.2.114
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

AbstractThis article focuses on the Dark Peak area of the Peak District. It discusses how moorlands such as Kinder (Plate 7), the region's highest point, came to represent, in the years before 1914, a form of stoical manliness, whose meanings were, for some male ramblers, nuanced in new ways by the immense losses of the First World War. It considers how walking in such an environment helped mediate the expression of emotion, which was usually constrained by contemporary expectations of manliness, and suggests how Kinder's bleak moorlands acquired a particular resonance between 1914–18 because of their resemblance to the battle landscape of trench warfare. This emotional dimension has been neglected in studies of access struggles, in which the political has received most attention, and has been similarly passed over by scholars of the First World War, who have tended to concentrate on memorials and commemorative symbols. The article draws, especially, upon the works of G. H. B. Ward, one of the most influential writers on this part of the Peak District, whose writings reveal the urban standpoint of walkers from the Sheffield side of the region.

Journal

LandscapesTaylor & Francis

Published: Oct 1, 2004

There are no references for this article.