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

by Andrew Radford

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826439683
• ISBN13: 9780826439680
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"