Landscape and Literature
“Landscape and Literature” by Stephen Siddall, published by Cambridge University Press on May 21, 2009, is a 128-page exploration of how landscapes are represented in literature. This edition provides critical introductions to various literary topics and genres, focusing on the significance of pastoral themes, the contrasts between urban and rural settings, and the evolution of literary styles from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.
Readers will find discussions on regional novels and poetry, featuring works from notable authors such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence, and Seamus Heaney. The book delves into the development of literary criticism related to nature and landscape, offering insights into the picturesque and sublime as expressed in different literary forms. This comprehensive examination serves as a resource for students and those interested in the intersection of literature and the natural world.
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Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Landscape and Literature introduces students to the exploration of different ways in which landscape has been represented in literature. It focuses on key aspects of this topic such as the importance of pastoral, contrasts between city and country, eighteenth-century developments from neo-classical to picturesque and Romantic ideas of the sublime, regional novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and varied styles of twentieth-century poetry from the Georgian poets to Heaney and Hughes. Poems and prose extracts from writers such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence and Seamus Heaney are included.
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