Overview
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 in Victorian and Modernist writing, Radford uses the analysis of these writers as a lens through which to inspect the relationship between rural periphery and metropolitan centre; contested ideologies ofEnglishness and the form of the national past.
- | Author: Andrew D. Radford
- | Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
- | Publication Date: Oct 28, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 192 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0826439683
- | ISBN-13: 9780826439680
