The West Country As a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in Its Place - Couverture rigide

Trezise, Simon

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0859895378 ISBN 13 : 9780859895378

Editeur : University of Exeter, 2000

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The late Simon Trezise was a lecturer in literature at the University of Exeter and had worked as a Tutor-Counsellor for the Open University. He lived and worked in many parts of the West Country.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Exeter
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0859895378
• ISBN 13: 9780859895378
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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