The West Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in Its Place
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... religious duties stifled his literary aspirations . The religious faith that inspired ' The Quest ' prevented him from finishing it . Nevertheless , Hawker's contribution has been recognized by some influential authors with West Country ...
... religious duties stifled his literary aspirations . The religious faith that inspired ' The Quest ' prevented him from finishing it . Nevertheless , Hawker's contribution has been recognized by some influential authors with West Country ...
Page 81
... religious allegiance : Britain was allied with a Muslim country to fight a Christian one . Compounding the religious complications , the British troops in the Crimea facing artillery fire and risking cholera for the national good ...
... religious allegiance : Britain was allied with a Muslim country to fight a Christian one . Compounding the religious complications , the British troops in the Crimea facing artillery fire and risking cholera for the national good ...
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... religious sentiment to counter- balance it . Many of the main aspects of the legends are repeated with variations : the period is set during the Civil War when Edward de Wichehalse and his only child Jennifred live a life of religious ...
... religious sentiment to counter- balance it . Many of the main aspects of the legends are repeated with variations : the period is set during the Civil War when Edward de Wichehalse and his only child Jennifred live a life of religious ...
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 |