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Place and the Scene of Literary Practice (Hardcover)
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Place and the Scene of Literary Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Historical Geography
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The act of writing is intimately bound up with the flow and eddy of
a writer's being-within-the-world; the everyday practices,
encounters and networks of social life. Exploring the geographies
of literary practice in the period 1840-1910, 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. As such, it is interested in literary creation not
only as something that takes place - the situated nature of putting
pen to paper - but simultaneously as a process that escapes such
placing. Arguing that writing is a process of longue duree, the
book explores the influence of family and friends in the creative
process, it draws attention to the role that travel and movement
play in writing and it explores the wider commitments of authorial
life, not as indicators of intertextuality, but as part of the
creative process. In taking this seventy year period as its focus,
this book moves beyond the traditional periodisations that have
characterised literary studies, such as the Victorian or Edwardian
novel, the nineteenth-century or early twentieth-century novel or
Romanticism, social realism and modernism. It argues that the
literary environment was not one of watershed moments; there were
continuities between writers separated by several decades or
writing in different centuries. At the same time, it draws
attention to a seventy year period in which the value of literary
work and culture were being contested and transformed. Place and
the Scene of Literary Practice will be key reading for those
working in Human Geography, particularly Cultural and Historical
Geography, Literary Studies and Literary History.
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