Literature & Place, 1800-2000Ten original essays examine the transactions between real places and the literary imagination, including the reinvention of real places in literary form, from 1800 to the present day. The focus moves outwards from local to regional and national issues, covering questions of cultural identity, space, representation, historicity and modernity. |
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Contributors | 7 |
Maps of Fictional Space | 25 |
The English Cottage as Cultural Critique | 49 |
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aesthetic American Association psychology become Brussig cartographic Castle century chapter character Chase County Christoph Hein colonial cottage critical cultural DeLillo deterritorialization Dickens Dickens's disease East German edition England English essay experience fiction figure frontier geography Hardy's Heaney Heartland Heat-Moon Highland Hollar's idea identity ideological imagination Ireland Irish Irving Irving's Jacobite Jacobite rebellion journey kind land landscape later literary literature and place literature of place living London MARTIN KANE metaphor modern myth narrative narrator native nature novel Omeros Ostalgie passage past Pater Philoctete Philoctete's Pickwick Plains poem poet political Portnoy's Complaint postcolonial Prairies Prairyerth Proust Quartermasters reader reality region representation roads Ruskin scene Scotland Scott Scottish sense Sizeranne social space Station Island Stokes street Sweeney Todgers's Tollund Tommo's tourist transformation University of Kent urban labyrinth Venice voyage Walter Prescott Webb Waverley Waverley's Webb Wessex wound writing