{"title":"Pastoral quietude for shell shock and national recovery","authors":"Michael Guida","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190085537.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190085537.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"The pastoral quietude emanating from the English countryside was used as a primary therapeutic milieu for soldiers and the nation in recovery after WWI. The archives of Enham Village Centre in Hampshire, a model village experiment for ordinary ex-servicemen, have been brought to light to show how country peace and quiet was part of a national ideology not just for soldiers but for all those shocked by world conflict. Quiet as a sonic category has received scant attention in scholarship. Yet, here its perception and its construction articulate more than simply an absence of meaningful sound. Quiet was a container within which small sounds could expand and take on significant meanings. When the invention of the Armistice silence brought so many together to pause and remember, even those two sacred minutes were given over to the sound of leaves and pigeon wings to inhabit.","PeriodicalId":381526,"journal":{"name":"Listening to British Nature","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130045307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The rambler’s search for the sensuous","authors":"Michael Guida","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190085537.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190085537.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"By examining the habits and experiences of walking in the countryside, moors, and mountains a deeply sensual public connection to nature is found in this chapter. Listening is part of this, but so too are touching and other sensory encounters. While rambling on one hand was an escape from the trials of urban and working life, it is argued that the weekend excursions that so many Britons participated in are better thought of as an exchange and balancing out of different sensations available in different places. Having said that, it was encounters with heather, streams, and rock formations that set the pulse racing. Rambling was by no means simply a search for peace and quiet, or for hilltop contemplation, rather walkers relished the accentuation of body rhythms and the stimulation that came from direct interaction with the natural environment.","PeriodicalId":381526,"journal":{"name":"Listening to British Nature","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129022809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}