DEPICTION OF ENGLAND Evoking an apparently common past and a common culture and mutually shared landscapes or landmarks is one of the ways in which a sense of national identity is promoted.In the discussion of Englishness-the sense of togetherness that binds all the people living in England,an idealized rural landscape depicted as a pastoral Eden is a recurring trope.DEPICTION OF ENGLAND Evoking an apparently common past and a common culture and mutually shared landscapes or landmarks is one of the ways in which a sense of national identity is promoted. In the discussion of Englishness—the sense of togetherness that binds all the people living in England, an idealized rural landscape depicted as a pastoral Eden is a recurring trope