Empty Spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history
Perspectives on emptiness in modern history
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Empty Spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history
Perspectives on emptiness in modern history
About this book
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining 'nothingness'? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discursively) empty space, and by which processes is emptiness discovered, visualised and reimagined?
This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: Confronting emptiness in history
- 1. āTake my advice, go to Monganās Hotelā: barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape
- 2. Amid the horrors of nature: ādeadā environments at the margins of the Russian empire
- 3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation: the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chavesās cross-country flights in 1912
- 4. Looking over the ship railings: the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters
- 5. Spectral figures: Edward Hopperās empty Paris
- 6. Landscapes of loss: the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction
- 7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London, c.1945ā95
- 8. Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places
- Index