The West Country As A Literary Invention

Putting Fiction in its Place

von Simon Trezise

272 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: University of Exeter Press
• ISBN: 9780859895378
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2000
• Größe: 229 x 153 mm
• Verlag: University of Exeter Press - IPSUK