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.
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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780859895385
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-85989-538-5
- Verlag: University of Exeter Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.09.2000
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2000
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 450 g
- Format (B x H x T): 162 x 230 x 17 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt