Literary Landscapes of the British Isles: A Narrative Atlas - Hardcover

Daiches, David; Flower, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0448222051 ISBN 13: 9780448222059

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1979

Synopsis

A delightful literary excursion, carefully charted with words and maps to deepen our appreciation and understanding of both the literature and the landscape of the British Isles. It includes the London of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dr. Johnson, Charles Dickens, and Virginia Woolf, Bath in the 18th and 19th centuries as seen by Smollett, Jane Austen and Dickens. Going north, The Lake poets, Bronte Country and to the west, Hardy's Wessex, the Dublin of Joyce and Yeats. Walking tours through Mrs. Dalloway and Ulysses are also included. A set of indexes, 33 detailed maps and 60 contemporary photographs and prints make for an easy to use reference as well as being a pleasure to browse. "A comprehensive atlas and gazetteer featuring information on more than 225 leading British and Irish authors (with detailed biographical summaries of each) and more than 475 cities, towns, and villages - The essential companion for the literary scholar, student and reader alike" TLS ISBN's: Hardback: 0448222051, 0709201508, 071351244X & 0871963051 Paperback: 0140057358

About this title

Product Description:

Sixty maps, a gazetteer, and critical essays place the great writers of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland against the background of their native regions

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0448222051
• ISBN 13: 9780448222059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 287