Mapping the Wessex novel: landscape, history and the parochial in British literature, 1870-1940
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Main Author: Radford, Andrew D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Continuum International Pub. Group ©2010
Series:Continuum literary studies
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-179) and index
Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Hardy's Heathens; 3 Archaeophobia: A Fear of Old Things; 4 Mystical Secrets and Lies; 5 The Return of the Nativist; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
By€discussing the work of€Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, € Mapping the Wessex Novel€ imaginatively maps and excavates various districts of the 'west country' so as radically to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification. Contributing to the growing research on space and place in Victorian and Modernist writing, Radford uses the analysis of these writers as a lens through which to inspect the relationship bet
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (182 pages)
ISBN:9781441148339
1441148337

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