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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. List of figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Introduction: Confronting emptiness in history
  9. 1. ‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape
  10. 2. Amid the horrors of nature: ‘dead’ environments at the margins of the Russian empire
  11. 3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation: the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chaves’s cross-country flights in 1912
  12. 4. Looking over the ship railings: the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters
  13. 5. Spectral figures: Edward Hopper’s empty Paris
  14. 6. Landscapes of loss: the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction
  15. 7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London, c.1945–95
  16. 8. Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places
  17. Index

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Confronting emptiness in history

Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating

1. ‘Take my advice, go to Mongan’s Hotel’: barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape

Kevin J. James

2. Amid the horrors of nature: ‘dead’ environments at the margins of the Russian empire

Jennifer Keating

3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation: the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chaves’s cross-country flights in 1912

Leonie Schuster

4. Looking over the ship railings: the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters

Tricia Cusack

5. Spectral figures: Edward Hopper’s empty Paris

Emily C. Burns

6. Landscapes of loss: the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction

Martin Walter

7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London, c.1945–95

Krystallia Kamvasinou and Sarah Ann Milne

8. Urban prehistoric enclosures: empty spaces/busy places

Kenneth Brophy

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