Title: Revisiting the great good place : the country house, landscape and Englishness in twentieth-century British fiction /
Authors: Kim, Youngjoo, 1967-
Year: 2002
Subjects: Woolf, Virginia, Criticism and interpretation.; Rhys, Jean. Criticism and interpretation.; Ishiguro, Kazuo, Criticism and interpretation.; English literature History and criticism; National characteristics, English, in literature.; Landscapes in literature.; Country homes in literature.
Contents: Introduction: the country house, English heritage and Englishness -- The country house and the shrinking island : the landscape of the home country and "our island history" in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts -- The country house on the colonial island : enigmas of Englishness in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea -- The 1980s return of the country house : de/historicized Englishness in Kazuo Ishiguro's The remains of the day -- Conclusion: landscape aesthetics and geographical identity.