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Is the 'West Country' on the map or in the mind? Is it the south-west peninsula of Britain or a semi-mythical country offering a home for those in pursuit of the romance of wrecking, smuggling and a rural Golden Age? This book investigates these questions in the context of the relationship between place and writing, discussing Thomas Hardy's Wessex; R.D. Blackmore's Exmoor and Lorna Doone; Charles Kingsley, whose Westward Ho!, became a Devon place-name, Sabine Baring-Gould of Dartmoor and recorder and inventor of West Country folk-tales; Parson Hawker of Morwenstowe, an inventor of the Cornish King Arthur.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: West Country As A Literary Invention
• Subtitle: Putting Fiction in its Place
• Author: Simon Trezise
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780859895378
• ISBN: 0859895378
• ID: 04743668
• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
• Weight: 560 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 153 × 38 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2000

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