In David Peters Corbett, Ysanne Holt and Fiona Russell (eds), The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past 1880-1940, Yale University Press, 2002, pp.29-63.

This book chapter addresses issues of the representation of fisherfolk, drawing on studies in geography, tourism and the representation of a particular class of non-urban person, the fisherperson, who was, it is argued, the closest British equivalent of the continental peasant.

It is based on original research, both empirical (visits to galleries; visual analyses) and theoretical (bringing together the literature on histories of 19th century fisheries, on touristic representations and practices, and on artists' colonies) and set in the wider context of the history of 19th century British painting.

Reviewed by academic Readers for Yale University Press, and in The Art Book and The Burlington Magazine.

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