Writing Britain : wastelands to wonderlands / Christina Hardyment.

Main entry:

Hardyment, Christina.

Title & Author:

Writing Britain : wastelands to wonderlands / Christina Hardyment.

Publication:

London : British Library, 2012.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
On the occasion of the exhibition, May 11-Sept. 25, 2012 at the British Library.
Includes bibliographical references (page 184) and index.
Ch. 1. Rural Dreams -- Ch. 2. Dark Satanic Mills -- Ch. 3. Wild Places -- Ch. 4. Waterlands -- Ch. 5. Cockney Visions -- Ch. 6. Beyond The City.

Summary:

"This book celebrates some of the most dazzling treasures of English literature to show how Britain's greatest authors have been inspired by, and even redefined, their country. From Chaucer's pilgrims journeying from Southwark to Canterbury, to the 21st century suburban hinterlands of J.G. Ballard, this book will explore how the places and landscapes of Britain permeate the nation's great literary works and how these works have, in turn, helped shape our perception and understanding of landscape and place, both real and imagined. As well as celebrating the traditional British landscape the book will also examine the literary construction of the city, following the mysterious fog-filled streets that stretch from the London of Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to the urban underworlds revealed by contemporary writers such as Neil Gaiman and Iain Sinclair. Featuring such diverse landscapes as Emily Bronte's wild and windy Yorkshire Moors, Wordsworth's Lake District, Elizabeth Gaskell's industrial northern towns, the seaside turned nightmare of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Graham Greene's seedy and menacing Brighton, Virginia Woolf's Bond Street and Hanif Kureishi's suburbia, this book will describe and illustrate the work of over 100 of the greatest British writers who have been inspired by place, spanning the Middle Ages to the 21st century"--Publisher's description.

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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780712358750 (pbk.)
0712358757 (pbk.)
9780712358743
0712358749

Subject:

English literature History and criticism Exhibitions.
Landscapes in literature Exhibitions.
Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique Expositions.
Paysages dans la littérature Expositions.
Literature.
English literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Englisch
Literatur
Großbritannien.
Landschaft
Great Britain In literature Exhibitions.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

British Library

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279961
Call No.: BIB 216277
Status: Available

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