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7 Cards in this Set
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Nash 1999
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Landscape makes distinction between classes
Define civilized and polite Ideas about landscape connected to specifically upper-class model of freedom and individualism on which commercial capitalism depended English aristocratic made connection between landscape and political authority in 18th century attempt to define and differentiate themselves from lower classes |
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Hurst 1890
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19th century Kandy "like a little England"
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Ceylon Motorists Road Book 1916
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Area between Kandy and Eliga highlands "good climate like English summer - not like the jungle and palms of the plains"
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Morton 1968
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"Looking out of hotel window at inexplicable English village chrun up againts what might, but for a couple of coconut Palms, be Surry hillside" he compares village to looking like surry
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Duncan 1992
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Kandy was design by the British to look like post industrial England. Landscape was model on the lake district
Kandy lake recreate a plane where English ladies and gents could escape the tropics and natives culture to a symbolically return home Landscape of city was a political track written in space and carried in stone-Landscape practice of power Intertextuality inscription of the island |
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Sivasundaram 2013
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British took the tooth relic of the biddha as the sacred signifier as the right to rule
The british recycled and redefined the laws religious customs languages and ethnic affiliatices of the island |
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Helsinger 1994
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The landscape formed one class retreat from the other
Aesthetic longative and moral standards masked class antagonisms as landscape representations masked issues of political representation Lake district national property |
