Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400

by Catherine A.M. Clarke

Pastoral and locus amoenus traditions in Medieval English literature, and the early mythologisation of English landscape, space and identity through pastoral topoi.

In its exploration of literary representations of ideal landscapes and the production of English identity across Latin and vernacular texts from Bede to Chaucer, this study looks in particular at pastoral and locus amoenustraditions in Medieval English literature, and the early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184384057X
• ISBN13: 9781843840572
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"