The Literature of Region and Nation

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
The Regional Forecast....Pages 10-23
Wordsworth, Regional or Provincial? The Epistolary Context....Pages 24-33
Stations and Shadows: from Skiddaw to Duddon....Pages 34-50
Regional and Provincial in Victorian Literature....Pages 51-60
Unreal Estate: Reflections on Wessex and Yoknapatawpha....Pages 61-80
Philip Larkin: Provincial Poet....Pages 81-92
Region and Nation: R. S. Thomas and Dylan Thomas....Pages 93-107
The View from the North: Region and Nation in The Silver Darlings and A Scots Quair....Pages 108-124
Scoticisms and Cultural Conflict....Pages 125-135
The Double Man....Pages 136-146
England: a Country of the Mind....Pages 147-159
‘The Most Wonderful Foreign Land I Have Ever Been In’: Kipling’s England....Pages 160-179
Williams and Stevens: the Quest for a Native American Modernism....Pages 180-193
The Local is the Universal: William Carlos Williams and Neil Gunn....Pages 194-205
Les Murray and the Poetry of Australia....Pages 206-218
The British Columbian History of Place....Pages 219-232
‘Walloon Literature’: Some Questions of Regionalism in a Bi-lingual Culture....Pages 233-241
‘Lëtzebuergesch’: a Dialect between Regional Tradition and National Vocation....Pages 242-248
Literature in ‘Lëtzebuergesch’ in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg....Pages 249-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-265