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Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940

Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940

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Series: Continuum Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0826439683
ISBN13: 9780826439680
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Oct 28 2010
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

By discussing the work of Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, John Cowper Powys and Mary Butts, Mapping the Wessex Novel imaginatively maps and excavates various districts of the 'west country' so as radically to redefine the 'parochial'; while being keenly aware of their own status as natives locked into complex histories of self-exile and return, estrangement and ardent identification.

Contributing to the growing research on space and place in Victorian and Modernist writing, Radford uses the analysis of these writers as a lens through which to inspect the relationship between rural periphery and metropolitan centre; contested ideologies of 'Englishness' and the form of the national past.

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