The West Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in Its Place

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University of Exeter Press, 2000 - English fiction - 256 pages


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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... Lectures and Essays in Criticism , Ann Arbor , University of Michigan Press . Tennyson , H. ( 1897 ) Alfred Lord Tennyson : A Memoir , 2 vols , London , Macmillan . Thackeray , W. ( 1946 ) The Letters and Private 249 BIBLIOGRAPHY.

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Contents

The West Country on the Map and in the Mind
1
Trelawny Cruel Coppinger
43
SelfRighteousness
79
Copyright

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About the author (2000)


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.


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TitleThe West Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in Its Place
South-West Studies
AuthorSimon Trezise
Editionillustrated
PublisherUniversity of Exeter Press, 2000
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized1 Mar 2008
ISBN0859895378, 9780859895378
Length256 pages
  
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