Victorian Landscape Research Articles

Restoring at landscape scales: Interview with Andrew Bennett

Intrigued by the power of science to grapple with questions relevant to management, Victorian landscape ecologist Andrew Bennett has directed his career to investigating how human land‐use and landscape change affect native fauna and ecological processes, seeking ways to achieve the ongoing conservation of Australian native fauna.

From “Having it all” to “Away from it all”: Post-feminism and Tamara Drewe

This paper focuses on Posy Simmonds’s graphic novel Tamara Drewe (2007) as a post-feminist text that negotiates the contradictions of the eponymous heroine’s desire to get “away from it all” in order to “have it all.” Despite its twenty-first century concerns, Tamara Drewe also alludes to nineteenth-century forms in its loose adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) and Simmonds’s mimicry of Victorian landscape painting for the background of her text. This anachronistic approach enables Tamara Drewe to resist the totalizing efforts of the “post” and dismantle the singularity implied by “feminism.” Specifically, Simmonds exploits the graphic novel’s scopic regime to critique the presumed irrelevance of issues coded as “feminist,” such as “the gaze” to post-feminist culture. Finally, Tamara Drewe represents the experience of feminism as itself necessarily anachronistic, consisting of simultaneous and often conflicting histories.

The Victorian Landscape of Catherine Cookson Country

The Journal of Popular CultureVolume 42, Issue 1 p. 162-179 The Victorian Landscape of Catherine Cookson Country JULIE ANNE TADDEO, JULIE ANNE TADDEO University of Maryland, College ParkSearch for more papers by this author JULIE ANNE TADDEO, JULIE ANNE TADDEO University of Maryland, College ParkSearch for more papers by this author First published: 22 January 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2009.00576.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume42, Issue1February 2009Pages 162-179 RelatedInformation

‘Our Australian Switzerland’: Lindt, Humboldt and the Victorian landscape

The convergence of natural philosophy, landscape design and photography in the design and representation of the Hermitage, the home and garden of the celebrated Melbourne photographer John William Lindt (1845–1926) (figure 1), reflects the impact of Humboldtian thinking on the Australian arts in the late nineteenth century.2 Lindt built his horne, studio and guest house at Black Spur3 near Healesville in the Yarra Ranges, a little to the northeast of Melbourne. Begun in 1894 after the depression of the early 1890s had forced the closure of Lindt's Melbourne studio, the building and its setting are testinwny, we argue, to the ideas on nature in the writings of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) whose five-volumed Cosmos (1845–1858) was still being read and discussed in the scientific and artistic circles in Melbourne with which Lindt was associated.4

Contemporary anti‐memorials and national identity in the Victorian landscape

[article extract] The success of the book Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape1 has marked a resurgence of public interest in Australian memorials. The federal goverment has commissioned a number of new memorials as Australia reflects upon the centenary of its federation.2 Chilla Bulbeck describes the evolution of Australian memorials when she states: To some extent, the recent history of Australian monument construction parallels the reorientation of Australian history from the deeds that won the empire or nation to the activities of ordinary men and women and the history of local communities.3 Through a series of case studies of both built and proposed work, this article explores a contemporary movement in public commemoration: the anti-memorial. Anti-memorials critique the illusion that the permanence of stone somehow guarantees the permanence of the idea it commemorates.4 In contrast, antimemorials formalise impermanence and even celebrate their own transitory natures. Anti-memorials encourage multiple readings of political and social issues, and prompt a different level of physical interactivity. The forms that antimemorials take, their impermanence and the people they commemorate challenge the logic behind traditional memorials. Anti-memorials reflect a focus on unnamed victims as opposed to heroes, offering an alternative reading of Australian history. They emphasise the informal and the local as opposed to the formal and the national, and are sited so as to allow interaction and more personal forms of mourning. They are often temporary, embodying the changing, fading nature of memory as opposed to a structure built to preserve memory and withstand time.

The English Landscape: Past, Present, and Future

This book traces the development of the English landscape from the earliest times to the present day and beyond, bringing together the research and views of a group of distinguished scientists and historians. It is based on the 1983 Wolfson lectures. The subjects of the essays include: the geomorphological background; Man and landscape in Britain 6000 BC to AD 400; Ancient woodland and hedges; mapping the Medieval landscape; the agricultural landscape; climate and landscape; towns, industry and the Victorian landscape; Agriculture, forestry and the future landscape.

Victorian Landscape Gardening a Facsimille of Jacob Weidenmann's Beautifying Country Homes

Victorian Landscape Gardening a Facsimille of Jacob Weidenmann's Beautifying Country Homes

Documenting a Victorian Landscape in the Midwest

Documenting a Victorian Landscape in the Midwest