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In My Own Shire Region and Belonging in British Writing, 1840-1970
Stephen Wade
Book Code: GM2182
ISBN: 0-313-32182-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32182-5
192 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2002
List Price: $97.95 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World Literature
Series Number: 119
Reviews:
  • This study is impossible to summarize: nearly every page develops a different concept of regionalism or defines a British writer's individual handling of it. Wade's concern is to pin down as precisely as possible "the attachments to place and community" or the sense of regional belonging. The subject is staggeringly complicated and lends itself neither to easy geographical orderliness nor simple sequential chronology, yet Wade seems to make sense of it all with his sharp thumbnail biographies and incisive definitions....Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.
    —Choice     October 2003
Description: An overview of 19th- and 20th-century writing from the British Isles shows a constant interplay between metropolitan centers and regional peripheries--an interplay that points to the basic importance of place and belonging in literary creation and evaluation. This volume examines the relationship between British literature--including poetry, fiction, biography, and drama--and regional consciousness in the Victorian and modern periods, introducing the reader to a range of responses to the profound feelings of belonging engendered by the sense of place. The works covered are a mixture of familiar classics and less well-known writings from working-class writers or forgotten writers who were successful in their era. After accounting for the emergence of regional writing in the early 19th century, the author analyzes the development of regional writing in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, focusing on issues such as the sociopolitical context of the regional novel, the print and literary cultures around regional presses, and the place of documentary in regional consciousness.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Inheritance: Past and Present
  • Place and People Revealed 1840-1860
  • Countries of the Mind: From Wessex to the Kailyard
  • Fin de Siecle
  • Renaissance: Inventing Celts, Cities, and Folk
  • Displacement to Documentary
  • Imagining Wales: James Hanley, The Welsh Sonata and the Anglo-Welsh Debate
  • The New Northerners: Studies of Provincial Life
  • Beyond London: Poetry in Britain from the Periphery 1945-1970
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2002074912
LCC Class: PR478
Dewey Class: 820
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