TY - BOOK ID - 3142057 TI - Literature and place 1800-2000 AU - Brown, Peter AU - Irwin, Michael PY - 2008 SN - 9783039115709 PB - Oxford Bern Berlin : Peter Lang, DB - UniCat KW - GEOGRAPHIE KW - LIEU (PHILOSOPHIE) KW - CADRE DU RECIT LITTERAIRE KW - DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - 19E SIECLE KW - 20E SIECLE UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3142057 AB - Ten original essays examine the transactions between real places and the literary imagination, including the reinvention of real places in literary form, from 1800 to the present day. They deal with different kinds of locations (islands, countries, cities), the topoi writers use to articulate a sense of place (maps, ruins, landscape, history), their generic manifestations in fiction, travel writing, topography, (auto)biography and poetry, and the theoretical and methodological issues which arise. The focus moves outwards from local to regional and national issues, covering questions of cultural identity, space, representation, historicity, and modernity in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, the United States, and the South Pacific. The contributors are drawn from both sides of the Atlantic, and include established scholars as well as newer voices. ER -