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.
| ISBN: | 9780859895385 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2000 |
| Author: | Simon Trezise |
| Publisher: | University of Exeter Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |