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Sixty maps, a gazetteer, and critical essays place the great writers of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland against the background of their native regions. Identifies geographic locations mentioned in the works of English authors and discusses the influence locations may have had on their work. Contents: --Chaucer's world: Chaucer's London; Touring with Chaucer's pilgrims; Chaucer overseas: the country of his mind -- --Shakespeare's London -- --Dr. Johnson's London -- --Charles Dickens's London -- --Virginia Woolf's London : a walking tour with Mrs. Dalloway -- --Bath -- --Lake poets -- --Romantic poets abroad -- --Bronte country -- --Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- --Blackening of England -- --Scotland in literature : Kidnapped: a topographical novel; Edinburgh -- --Dublin of Yeats and Joyce: After Parnell; Wanderings of Ulysses; Other testimony -- --Atlas and gazetteer section: Atlas; General gazetteer; London gazetteer; Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Inns of Court; Schools; Geographical index.
Buchkauf
Literary Landscapes of The British Isles, David Daiches, John Flower
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1979
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- Literary Landscapes of The British Isles
- Untertitel
- A Narrative Atlas
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- David Daiches, John Flower
- Verlag
- Paddington Press
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1979
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 287
- ISBN10
- 0709201508
- ISBN13
- 9780709201502
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Reisen, Handbücher und Anleitungen, Britische Literatur, Europa, Großbritannien, Über Bücher
- Beschreibung
- Sixty maps, a gazetteer, and critical essays place the great writers of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland against the background of their native regions. Identifies geographic locations mentioned in the works of English authors and discusses the influence locations may have had on their work. Contents: --Chaucer's world: Chaucer's London; Touring with Chaucer's pilgrims; Chaucer overseas: the country of his mind -- --Shakespeare's London -- --Dr. Johnson's London -- --Charles Dickens's London -- --Virginia Woolf's London : a walking tour with Mrs. Dalloway -- --Bath -- --Lake poets -- --Romantic poets abroad -- --Bronte country -- --Thomas Hardy's Wessex -- --Blackening of England -- --Scotland in literature : Kidnapped: a topographical novel; Edinburgh -- --Dublin of Yeats and Joyce: After Parnell; Wanderings of Ulysses; Other testimony -- --Atlas and gazetteer section: Atlas; General gazetteer; London gazetteer; Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, Inns of Court; Schools; Geographical index.