The West Country As A Literary Invention : Putting Fiction in its Place Hardback
by Simon Trezise
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Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age?This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing, discussing Thomas Hardy's Wessex; R.D.
Blackmore's Exmoor and Lorna Doone; Charles Kingsley, whose Westward Ho!, became a Devon place-name, Sabine Baring-Gould of Dartmoor and recorder and inventor of West Country folk-tales; Parson Hawker of Morwenstowe, an inventor of the Cornish King Arthur.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University of Exeter Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2000
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- ISBN:9780859895378
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:272 pages
- Publisher:University of Exeter Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2000
- Category:
- ISBN:9780859895378