Mapping the Wessex novel
Subtitle: landscape, history and the parochial in British literature, 1870-1940
By: Andrew Radford
Publisher: Continuum Literary Studies
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441131591; 9781441148339; 9781441100931
Subjects: Local history in literature; Regionalism in literature; English fiction; Landscapes in literature; In literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What makes a "West-country man"; title: Scouring the regional past; title: Imaginative archaeology; title: Hardy's heathens; title: Coining Wessex; title: Reading the face of Egdon; title: Signatures in the soil; title: A history of violence; title: Gather ye the fragments that are left; title: Archaeophobia: a fear of old things; title: Pilgrimage into wild places; title: Salvaging the hunter; title: Roaming a savage Wessex; title: The poisonous past; title: Mystical secrets and lies; title: Romancing the stones; title: Aboriginal sins; title: Mai-Dun and Mortimer Wheeler; title: Debunking the dark god of Dorchester?; title: The return of the nativist; title: Trespassers beware; title: Rewriting the grail quest; title: An alternative Histories of Albion; title: Brutal mystifications; title: Conclusion.