The West Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in Its Place
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... South West . Modern geologists , guided by an understanding of the underlying forces that shape landscapes , and ' bio - regionalists ' , who wish to preserve ' natural ' boundaries , can also see the South West peninsula as a separate ...
... South West . Modern geologists , guided by an understanding of the underlying forces that shape landscapes , and ' bio - regionalists ' , who wish to preserve ' natural ' boundaries , can also see the South West peninsula as a separate ...
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... South ( 1859 ) . Mrs Gaskell partially complicates the simple division suggested by her novel's title , but her demarcation was and is a powerful influence . A French reviewer accepted Gaskell's dichotomy between an industrial North and ...
... South ( 1859 ) . Mrs Gaskell partially complicates the simple division suggested by her novel's title , but her demarcation was and is a powerful influence . A French reviewer accepted Gaskell's dichotomy between an industrial North and ...
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... South . He warned visitors to North Devon in 1849 that they were not among ' South Saxon clods , but among wits as keen and imaginations as rich as those of any Scotch shepherd or Manchester operative ' ( C. Kingsley 1891 : 291 ) ...
... South . He warned visitors to North Devon in 1849 that they were not among ' South Saxon clods , but among wits as keen and imaginations as rich as those of any Scotch shepherd or Manchester operative ' ( C. Kingsley 1891 : 291 ) ...
Contents
The West Country on the Map and in the Mind | 1 |
Trelawny Cruel Coppinger | 43 |
SelfRighteousness | 79 |
Copyright | |
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The West Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in Its Place Simon Trezise No preview available - 2000 |
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ancient Arthurian Auberley Bagworthy ballad Baring-Gould Blackmore 1994 Blackmore's Byles Celtic Chapter character Charles Kingsley cliffs Clovelly coast Coppinger Cornish created Dartmoor described Dorset Egdon Eliot Elizabethan England English Exmoor explored Faggus famous fiction Godrevy Godrevy Lighthouse Hardy Hardy's Hawker Heath human Idylls imagination inspired invention Jan Ridd John King Arthur Kingsley's labourer land landscape legends lighthouse linked literary living London Lorna Doone mind modern moor Morwenstow Napoleon nature nineteenth-century North Cornwall North Devon novel novelist Parson Hawker past person place-names poem present provincial R.D. Blackmore railway Ramsay readers reality regional writers rocks romance rural Sabine Sabine Baring-Gould Saxon sense smugglers smuggling South St Ives Stephen story tale Talland Talland House Tennyson territory underfoot Thomas Hardy Tintagel topography tragedy Trelawny verse Victorian Wessex West Country Western Westward Westward Ho Wichehalse Winefred woman Woolf words
References to this book
In My Own Shire: Region and Belonging in British Writing, 1840-1970 Stephen Wade No preview available - 2002 |
Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture Inga Bryden No preview available - 2005 |