The Literature of Place

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Region Today: Some Reflections on Geoffrey Hill, D. H. Lawrence and Regional Tone....Pages 1-14
Shakespeare’s Garden of Eloquence: The Poetry of the Whole Land....Pages 15-29
Byron, Lawrence and the Spirit of Place....Pages 30-39
Hardy and Drayton: A Contribution to Pastoral and Georgic Traditions....Pages 40-63
The Woodlanders: A Metaphor of Character....Pages 64-75
The Scottish Stories of Margaret Oliphant....Pages 76-86
Haunted Houses: Place and Dispossession in Rudyard Kipling’s World....Pages 87-106
Self As Region: The Case of Conrad....Pages 107-121
E. M. Forster’s Alexandrian Essays....Pages 122-131
MacDiarmid and English Identity....Pages 132-155
The Romantic Nationalism of R. S. Thomas....Pages 156-169
The Reader in a Floating World: The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro....Pages 170-179
The Debatable Land: Frontier Women Writers....Pages 180-192
Portraits of the Prairies in Western Canadian Literature....Pages 193-204
The Quiet Chameleon: The Modern Poetry of Malawi....Pages 205-213
The Falklands War: History as Myth and Metaphor....Pages 214-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-241