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The West Country as a Literary Invention : Putting Fiction in Its Place
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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780859895378
- ISBN-10: 0859895378
- Publisher: University of Exeter Press
- Publish Date: September 2000
- Dimensions: 9 x 6.01 x 1.5 inches
- Page Count: 272
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