03266nam 2200757Ia 450 991078566870332120230725030600.01-282-76571-X97866127657111-4411-4833-7(CKB)2670000000068026(EBL)583796(OCoLC)671632614(SSID)ssj0001235641(PQKBManifestationID)12532574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001235641(PQKBWorkID)11232172(PQKB)10138525(SSID)ssj0000422674(PQKBManifestationID)12155318(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422674(PQKBWorkID)10432363(PQKB)10910332(MiAaPQ)EBC583796(Au-PeEL)EBL583796(CaPaEBR)ebr10415872(CaONFJC)MIL276571(OCoLC)893334969(EXLCZ)99267000000006802620091123d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMapping the Wessex novel[electronic resource] landscape, history and the parochial in British literature, 1870-1940 /Andrew RadfordNew York Continuum International Pub. Group20101 online resource (193 p.)Continuum literary studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-4411-3159-0 0-8264-3968-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Hardy's Heathens; 3 Archaeophobia: A Fear of Old Things; 4 Mystical Secrets and Lies; 5 The Return of the Nativist; 6 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexBy 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 peripheryContinuum literary studies.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismLandscapes in literatureLocal history in literatureRegionalism in literatureWessex (England)In literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Landscapes in literature.Local history in literature.Regionalism in literature.823/.8099427Radford Andrew D.1972-884773MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785668703321Mapping the Wessex novel3810011UNINA