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dc.contributor.authorJones, Roy
dc.contributor.authorDolin, Timothy
dc.contributor.editorRogerio Amoeda
dc.contributor.editorSergio Lira
dc.contributor.editorCristina Pinheiro
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:34:59Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:34:59Z
dc.date.created2013-02-14T20:00:27Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationJones, Roy and Dolin, Timothy. 2012. Literary Heritage or National Heritage? Landscape Preservation and Change in Dorset, in Amoeda, R. and Lira, S. and Pinheiro, C. (ed), 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development, Jun 19 -22 2012, pp. 1219-1225. Porto Portugal: Green Lines Instituto para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33092
dc.description.abstract

The largely rural landscape of Dorset is widely seen as being essentially and traditionally English. In part, this perception has been entrenched in the public mind by the late nineteenth and early twentieth century writings of Thomas Hardy and, in more recent years, by numerous film and television adaptations of his works. In an unrelated but in some ways parallel development, the Prince of Wales has encouraged the development of a present day version of a traditional English village at Poundbury on the outskirts of the county town of Dorchester (Hardy's Casterbridge). In this presentation, I argue that the surface features of past landscapes are often preserved or even recreated for contemporary purposes that have little to do with the (often agricultural) functions for which these landscape features were first devised and more to do with contemporary visions of heritage and even nationalism. This will be illustrated through the results of a survey of tourists at a variety of Hardy-related sites in and around Dorchester which considered the extent to which they sought and/or found rural landscapes which they could relate to Hardy's works. It will also consider the landscape of Poundbury, which has been developed as an idealisation of a traditional English village. Under the theme of heritage and sustainable development the paper will consider whether heritage(s) is/are being sustained, retained, transformed or creatively destroyed by literary tourism and royal property development in and around Dorchester.

dc.publisherGreen Lines Instituto para o Desenvolvimento Sustentavel
dc.subjectTourism
dc.subjectLandscape Preservation
dc.subjectHeritage
dc.titleLiterary Heritage or National Heritage? Landscape Preservation and Change in Dorset
dc.typeConference Paper
dcterms.source.startPage1219
dcterms.source.endPage1225
dcterms.source.titleHeritage 2012 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
dcterms.source.seriesHeritage 2012 3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
dcterms.source.isbn9789899567153
dcterms.source.conference3rd International Conference on Heritage and Sustainable Development
dcterms.source.conference-start-dateJun 19 2012
dcterms.source.conferencelocationPorto Portugal
dcterms.source.placeAv Alcaides de Faria 377 S 12 4750-106 Barcelos, Portugal
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