Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The cultural geography of early modern drama, 1620-1650 The cultural geography of early modern drama, 1620-1650 Sanders, Julie Dr "Literary geographies is an exciting new area of interdisciplinary research. Innovative and engaging, this book applies theories of landscape, space and place from the discipline of cultural geograph… OL15916792W
LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago LiTTscapes - Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago Kris Rampersad  Full colour, easy reading, coffee table-style  More than 500 photographs of Trinidad and Tobago  Represents some 100 works by more than 60 writers  Captures intimate real life and fictional d… OL16801744W
Romantic localities Romantic localities Christoph Bode,Jacqueline M. Labbe Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes - both geographical and metaphorical - and literatures. This focus o… OL16946964W
Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space Continuum Lit… Contemporary British Fiction and the Artistry of Space Continuum Lit… David James "This study examines the importance of space for the way contemporary novelists experiment with style and form, offering an account of how British writers from the past three decades have engaged wit… OL17519418W
The American Landscape The American Landscape Mark Twain,William Faulkner,John Conron,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,E. B. White,Kate Chopin,J. Conron Deformations: twentieth-century landscapes of ruin. Walden / E.B. White From the Grand Canyon to Burbank (1945) / Henry Miller A Sand County Almanac / Aldo Leopold Illinois bus Ride / Aldo Leopo… OL2001857W
Spanish Spaces Spanish Spaces Ann Davies Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the… OL20930468W
Riverbank and seashore in nineteenth and twentieth century British literature Riverbank and seashore in nineteenth and twentieth century British literature Gillian Mary Hanson "This book examines the ways in which 21 modern and postmodern writers have made use of the physical environment in their work. It considers how each author employs the physical settings in the plot … OL2711600W
Writing for an Endangered World Writing for an Endangered World Lawrence Buell "Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, Buell's book provides the theoretical underpinnings for an eco-criticism now reaching full power. Writi… OL3503211W
Calling from diffusion Calling from diffusion Thomas M. Greene "Based on four Neilson Lectures delivered at Smith College, this book examines a series of "promenade poems," lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. Thom… OL3516315W
Symbolist landscapes Symbolist landscapes James Kearns xiii, 218 p., [12] p. of plates : 23 cm OL4569048W
Translating Southwestern landscapes Translating Southwestern landscapes Audrey Goodman "Whether as tourist's paradise, countercultural destination, or site of native resistance, the American Southwest has functioned as an Anglo cultural fantasy for more than a century. In Translating S… OL5951365W