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The Literature of Place

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Norman Page

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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  2. Peter Preston

    1. Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Region Today: Some Reflections on Geoffrey Hill, D. H. Lawrence and Regional Tone

    • R. P. Draper
    Pages 1-14

  3. Shakespeare’s Garden of Eloquence: The Poetry of the Whole Land

    • Charles Calder
    Pages 15-29

  4. Byron, Lawrence and the Spirit of Place

    • Michael Herbert
    Pages 30-39

  5. Hardy and Drayton: A Contribution to Pastoral and Georgic Traditions

    • Dennis Taylor
    Pages 40-63

  6. The Woodlanders: A Metaphor of Character

    • Azize ÅŒzgŪven
    Pages 64-75

  7. The Scottish Stories of Margaret Oliphant

    • Merryn Williams
    Pages 76-86

  8. Haunted Houses: Place and Dispossession in Rudyard Kipling’s World

    • Elliot L. Gilbert
    Pages 87-106

  9. Self As Region: The Case of Conrad

    • Peter J. Casagrande
    Pages 107-121

  10. E. M. Forster’s Alexandrian Essays

    • Hilda D. Spear
    Pages 122-131

  11. MacDiarmid and English Identity

    • Robert Crawford
    Pages 132-155

  12. The Romantic Nationalism of R. S. Thomas

    • Tony Brown
    Pages 156-169

  13. The Reader in a Floating World: The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

    • Valerie Purton
    Pages 170-179

  14. The Debatable Land: Frontier Women Writers

    • Rosemarie Morgan
    Pages 180-192

  15. Portraits of the Prairies in Western Canadian Literature

    • Winnifred M. Bogaards
    Pages 193-204

  16. The Quiet Chameleon: The Modern Poetry of Malawi

    • Adrian Roscoe
    Pages 205-213

  17. The Falklands War: History as Myth and Metaphor

    • David Monaghan
    Pages 214-228

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 229-241
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This collection of essays discusses writers who have in common their use of the English language. The authors are from all over the world and their subject matter ranges from Shakespeare to Hardy, from Margaret Oliphant to Kazuo Ishiguro and from the Canadian prairies to the Falklands War.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Norman Page

  • Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham, UK

    Peter Preston

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