Sentence:  Traditionally, literary geographers have emphasized the importance of the regional novel's sensitive evocation of place, and we have been inundated by studies of such <WSD>placeful</WSD> novelists as Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb, Arnold Bennett, Francis Brett Young, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Focused on a location and its properties.