Songlines: Ruskin and the Roads of Europe

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4855
dc.contributor.author	Hull Howard
dc.title	Songlines: Ruskin and the Roads of Europe
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Ruskin’s Europe can be understood as a network of roads, physical and imaginary, which interconnect in a single vital configuration. Ruskin saw this as a distinct terroir, a cultural and spatial ecosystem created over millennia. What he termed the ‘Old Road’ is an attempt to unify the topographical and historical discovery of physical journeying to a conceptual road of intellectual reflection and the imagination. Ruskin used, but lamented, the railways just as we use, but lament, the internet. These powerful tools come at a price, fore shortening encounter, memory and time. Ruskin fought to defend Europe’s old road as one we are in danger of forgetting and which he called on us to reclaim.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sources, Literatures, Arts & Landscapes of Europe
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-12-15
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-488-2/songlines-ruskin-and-the-roads-of-europe/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5/014
dc.identifier.issn	2724-6620
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8507
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-488-2
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-487-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution + Noncommercial + NoDerivatives
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Europe
dc.subject	Europe
dc.subject	Old Road
dc.subject	Old Road
dc.subject	Roads
dc.subject	Roads
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Ruskin
dc.subject	Tourism
dc.subject	Tourism
dc.subject	Travel
dc.subject	Travel

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Songlines: Ruskin and the Roads of Europe

Howard Hull Brantwood, UK

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Ruskin’s Europe can be understood as a network of roads, physical and imaginary, which interconnect in a single vital configuration. Ruskin saw this as a distinct terroir, a cultural and spatial ecosystem created over millennia. What he termed the ‘Old Road’ is an attempt to unify the topographical and historical discovery of physical journeying to a conceptual road of intellectual reflection and the imagination. Ruskin used, but lamented, the railways just as we use, but lament, the internet. These powerful tools come at a price, fore shortening encounter, memory and time. Ruskin fought to defend Europe’s old road as one we are in danger of forgetting and which he called on us to reclaim.

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Dec. 15, 2020

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Keywords: Roads • Old Road • Tourism • Travel • Ruskin • Europe

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