David Matless

Background

David Matless was born in the United Kingdom.

Career

David Matless serves as a professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Nottingham. He published his first book Landscape and Englishness in 1998. Together with Timothy Wilcox he wrote A Day in the Sun: Outdoor Pursuits in the Art of the 1930s that was published in 2006. Later he wrote In the Nature of Landscape. Matless's latest book The Regional Book was published in 2015. He also was a contributor to periodicals, including Progress in Human Geography, Society and Space, Ecumene, Rural History, and Journal of Design History. His wider areas of publication include the life and work of ecologist/artist Marietta Pallis, British geographical studies of the Eastern bloc, geographies of sound, the landscapes of a documentary film, and the geography of ghosts.

Achievements

• David Matless is an English educator and writer who is famous for his books about landscape and English identity. His famous books are Landscape and Englishness and In the Nature of Landscape.

Works

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  • In the Nature of Landscape: Cultural Geography on the Norfolk Broads

    (In the Nature of Landscape presents regional cultural lan...)

    2014
  • Landscape and Englishness

    (Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness ...)

    1998
  • A Day in the Sun: Outdoor Pursuits in the Art of the 1930s 2006