The West Country As A Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in its Place

The West Country As A Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in its Place

Dr Simon Trezise
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Author:  Dr Simon Trezise
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  272
Publisher:  University of Exeter Press
Year:  2000
ISBN:  9780859895378


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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