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.