Melancholy and the Landscape Locating sadness, memory and reflection in the landscape

• Main Author: Bowring, Jacky (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon New York Routledge 2017
• Series: Routledge research in landscape and environmental design
• Subjects: Landscapes > Psychological aspects; Melancholy; Landscape design; Nature (Aesthetics); Environmental psychology
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• Physical Description: x, 183 pages illustrations 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9781138946989

This book situates the concept within landscape's aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness