The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland
Subtitle: 18001990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521381970
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Irish Novel And Short Story; English Novel And Short Story; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Audio Adult: Other; British Isles; Ireland; Irish authors; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; 19th century; English fiction; History and criticism; Regionalism in literature
First sentence: 'Novels of character and environment' - that was how Hardy described his 'Wessex novels'.