English landscape aesthetics are recruited as evidence of national greatness.

Evidence

I stood on that high ledge this morning and viewed that land before me, I distinctly felt that rare, yet unmistakable feeling - the feeling that one is in the presence of “greatness”. We call this land of ours Great Britain, and there may be those who believe this a somewhat immodest practice. Yet I would venture that the landscape of our country alone would justify the use of this lofty adjective. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2316

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the literary treatment of English pastoralism as national ideology — Stevens in The Remains of the Day embodies this voice; also the imperial-nostalgia readings in Said’s Culture and Imperialism.
• QUESTION: The passage is presented in the book as an exemplar — worth chasing what analytic point this Ishiguro quotation is being made to carry within the chapter.