Lingua: Inglese
Editore: University of Exeter Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 0859895378 ISBN 13: 9780859895378
Da: Bill & Ben Books, Faringdon, Regno Unito
EUR 12,01
Quantità: 5 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardback. Condizione: New. 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.