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

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University of Exeter Press, 2000 - 256 strani


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

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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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NaslovThe West Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in Its Place
South-West Studies
AvtorSimon Trezise
Izdajailustrirana
ZaložnikUniversity of Exeter Press, 2000
Vir izvirnikaUniverza v Michiganu
Pretvorjeno v digitalni zapis1 mar 2008
ISBN0859895378, 9780859895378
Dolžina256 strani
  
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