Place and the Scene of Literary Practice

ISBN-13: 9780367244149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Angharad Saunders

Opis

Exploring the geographies of literary practice from 1860 to 1920, this book takes as its focus the work, or craft, of authorship, exploring novels not as objects awaiting interpretation, but as spatial processes of making meaning. 

Spis treści

Prologue: The Place and the Scene of Literary Practice Part 1: The Place of Writing 1. Interpretations on an Interior 2. Holland Park, West Kensington, London 3. Posting over Seas: author, audience and the narration of place Part 2: Writingscapes: writers at work 4. Bennett’s Writingscape 5. Trollope’s Work Plans: crafting The Bertrams (1859) 6. Writing-through: making The Man of Property (1906)  Part 3: En-route Writing 7. Trollope’s en-route writing 8. Galsworthy’s Epistolary Practices: the relational making of Fraternity (1909) Epilogue: travelling objects

O autorze

Angharad Saunders is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of South Wales, UK. Her research interests revolve around the literary and cultural geographies of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. In particular, she is interested the relationship between writing practice, as something more than a situated undertaking, and the imaginative worlds of the novel.