I Hate the Lake District

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Charlie Gere (Reader in New Media Research, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster University)

I Hate the Lake District

Charlie Gere (Reader in New Media Research, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster University)

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English

Goldsmiths, University of London
08 October 2019

Local history; Travel writing

An alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past. I Hate the Lake District offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of ""nature"" itself-of which the human presence is merely a part. Each chapter starts with an account of a visit to a place in this remote part of England, the deep north, but digresses and wanders through multifarious themes and subjects.

Among the sites Gere visits are the defunct nuclear power station at Sellafield, home of all British nuclear waste; Lake Coniston, where Donald Campbell died trying to break the water speed record; Hadrian's Wall, furthermost reach of the Roman Empire; the mysterious and deathly Morecambe Bay; sites of slavery in the North West; places where UFOs have been sighted, avant-garde artists created work, and Islamic terrorists trained; shantytowns where the navvies who built the railways lived with their families; and even the remains of Blobbyland in Morecambe.

In I Hate the Lake District, Gere challenges the bourgeois pastoralism of popular nature writing and reveals the landscape of North West England as profoundly unnatural and strange.

By: Charlie Gere (Reader in New Media Research Institute for Cultural Research Lancaster University Lancaster University)
Imprint: Goldsmiths, University of London
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 212g
ISBN: 9781912685110
ISBN 10: 1912685116
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 08 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Charlie Gere is Professor of Media Theory and History in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University. He is the author of Digital Culture; Art, Time and Technology; and Unnatural Theology- Religion, Art, and Media after the Death of God.

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I Hate the Lake District

Charlie Gere (Reader in New Media Research, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, Lancaster University)

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