\Our english ground\
Year: 2014

My dissertation, "Our English Ground": Domesticity, Nationalism, and the Natural World, 1900-1950 argues that many women made crucial contributions to ecological discourses of the early-twentieth century--more specifically, that they produced nuanced accounts of the relationships between humans and the natural world in their visual and textual representations of "nature," "landscape," and "the nation." Although "nature has a persistent, even adaptive, presence in modernism" (Scott 13), that pres