Landscapes and Townscapes

The essays in this volume discuss various aspects of urbanscapes and landscapes, and analyse their depiction and significance in selected literary and visual works, exploring various approaches to the city, urban spaces, landscape, countryside and topography in the British literature and culture of the long 18th and 19th centuries.

Keywords: landscape gardening, picturesque, countryside, aesthetic, pastoral, city, urban space, crime, urban satire, suburbs, adaptation.


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Małgorzata Nitka, https://orcid.org/
Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548737.pp.89-100

Przemysław Uściński, https://orcid.org/
City and Irony: London’s Contradictions in Samuel Johnson’s London
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548737.pp.79-88

Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska, https://orcid.org/
City as a Nightmare: The Treatment of Urban Space in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Its Selected Visual Interpretations
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548737.pp.101-123

Aleksandra Kędzierska, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3165-6267
G. M. Hopkins: Landscape with a Rainbow
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548737.pp.29-40

Stephen Daniels, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0092-6335
Humphry Repton and the Pocketbook Picturesque
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548737.pp.13-28

Jeremy Tambling, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2785-9347
Multiplying Unintelligibility: Joyce, Schizophrenia, Cities and Crime
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548737.pp.57-78

Przemysław Uściński, https://orcid.org/
Nature, Nostalgia, and the Countryside (Goldsmith, Gilpin, and Cobbett)
https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323548737.pp.41-56