Washed with sun: landscape and the making of white South Africa

Introduction: landscape, character, and analogical imagination

From imperialism to nationalism: South Africanism and the politics of white nationhood

Visual representation, discursive landscape, and "a simple life in a genial climate"

Between corporeality and representation: theoretical and methodological excursus

Baden-Powell and the Siege of Mafeking: the enactment of mythical place

John Buchan's Hesperides: the aesthetics of improvement on the highveld

Prospect, materiality, and the horizons of potentiality on Parktown Ridge

Mrs. Everard's lonely career: the Komati Valley and the depiction of nostalgic displacement

Modernity, memory, and the South African railways: the iconography of emptiness

The life and afterlife of a contrapuntal subjectivity.