Literary Landscapes: Charting the Worlds of Classic Literature
Literary Landscapes: Charting the Worlds of Classic Literature
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Overview
Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere. As is the case with all great literature, the setting, scenery, and landscape are as central to the tale as any character, and just as easily recognized. Literary Landscapes brings together more than 50 literary worlds and examines how their description is intrinsic to the stories that unfold within their borders.
Follow Leopold Bloom's footsteps around Dublin. Hear the music of the Mississippi River steamboats that set the score for Huckleberry Finn. Experience the rugged bleakness of Newfoundland in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News or the soft Neapolitan breezes in My Brilliant Friend.
The landscapes of enduring fictional characters and literary legends are vividly brought to life, evoking all the sights and sounds of the original works. Literary Landscapes will transport you to the fictions greatest lands and allow you to connect to the story and the author's intent in a whole new way.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316561815 |
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| Publisher: | Running Press Book Publishers |
| Publication date: | 11/13/2018 |
| Series: | Literary Worlds Series |
| Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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Table of Contents
Introduction John Sutherland 10
1 Romantic Prospects Up To 1914 14
Persuasion, 1817 Bath, England Jane Austen 16
The Betrothed (I promessi sposi), 1827 Lombardy, Italy Alessandro Manzoni 18
La Comédie humaine, 1829-48 Paris, France Honoré De Balzac 21
Wuthering Heights, 1847 Yorkshire Moors, England Emily Brontë 24
Bleak House, 1852-53 London, England Charles Dickens 28
Les Misérables, 1862 Paris, France Victor Hugo 32
Anna Karenina, 1875-77 Tula Oblast, Russia Leo Tolstoy 35
The Return of the Native, 1878 Dorset, England Thomas Hardy 38
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884 Mississippi River, USA Mark Twain 42
Kidnapped, 1886 Highlands, Scotland Robert Louis Stevenson 46
The People of Hemsö (Hemsöborna), 1887 Kymmendö, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden August Strindberg 49
The War of the Worlds, 1898 H. G. Wells, Surrey, England 52
Anne of Green Gables, 1908 Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada Lucy Maud Montgomery 56
O Pioneers!, 1913 Nebraska, USA Willa Gather 60
2 Mapping Modernism 1915-1945 62
The Rainbow, 1915 Nottinghamshire, England D. H. Lawrence 64
Kristin Lavransdatter, 1920-22 Gudbrand Valley, Norway Sigrid Undset 67
The Age of Innocence, 1920 New York City, USA Edith Wharton 70
Ulysses, 1922 Dublin, Ireland James Joyce 74
The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg), 1924 Alps, Switzerland Thomas Mann 78
Mrs Dalloway, 1925 London, England Virginia Woolf 82
The Great Gatsby, 1925 New York City and Long Island, USA F. Scott Fitzgerald 86
Winnie-the-Pooh, 1926 Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England A. A. Milne 89
The Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti), 1929 Rome, Italy Alberto Moravia 94
Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1929 Berlin, Germany Alfred Döblin 96
Odessa Stories (Odesskiye rasskazy), 1931 Odessa, Ukraine Isaac Babel 99
Sunset Song, 1932 Aberdeenshire, Scotland Lewis Grassic Gibbon 104
Little House on the Prairie, 1935 Kansas, USA Laura Ingalls Wilder 106
Absalom, Absalom!, 1936 Mississippi and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA William Faulkner 108
Rebecca, 1938 Fowey, Cornwall, England Daphne Du Maurier 112
For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940 Guadarrama Mountains, Spain Ernest Hemingway 116
The Violent Land (Terras do Sem Fim), 1943 Bahia, Brazil Jorge Amado 118
Cannery Row, 1945 Monterey, California, USA John Steinbeck 120
3 Postwar Panoramas 1946-1974 124
The Evenings: A Winter's Tale (De avonden: een winterverhaal), 1947 Amsterdam, Netherlands Gerard Reve 126
Midaq Alley (Zuqaq al-Midaq), 1947 Cairo, Egypt Naguib Mahfouz 130
The Hive (La colmena), 1951 Madrid, Spain Camilo José Cela 133
The Long Goodbye, 1953 Los Angeles, USA Raymond Chandler 136
Under Milk Wood, 1954 Laugharne, Wales Dylan Thomas 140
The Sound of Waves (Shiosai), 1954 Uta-Jima, Japan Yukio Mishima 142
Bonjour Tristesse, 1954 Côte d'Azur, France Françoise Sagan 145
The Lonely Londoners, 1956 London, England Samuel Selvon 148
Peyton Place, 1956 New Hampshire, USA Grace Metalious 152
Voss, 1957 Outback, Australia Patrick White 154
Arturo's Island (L'isola di Arturo), 1957 Procida, Bay of Naples, Italy Elsa Morante 158
Things Fall Apart, 1958 Onitsha, East Bank Niger River, Nigeria Chinua Achebe 161
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960 Monroeville, Alabama, USA Harper Lee 164
The Ice Palace (Is-slollet), 1963 Telemark, Norway Tarjei Vesaas 168
The Master and Margarita (Máster i Margaríta), 1966 Moscow, Russia Mikhail Bulgakov 170
The French Lieutenants Woman, 1969 Lyme Regis, Dorset, England John Fowles 174
The Bluest Eye, 1970 Lorain, Ohio, USA Toni Morrison 177
The Summer Book (Sommarboken), 1972 Pellinki Archipelago, Finland Tove Jansson 179
The Gulag Archipelago (Arkhipelág GULÁG), 1973 Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, Russia Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 181
4 Contemporary Geographies 1975-Present 184
Tales of the City, 1978 San Francisco, USA Armistead Maupin 186
The Dragon Cant Dance, 1979 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Earl Lovelace 189
The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Dcsassossego), 1982 Lisbon, Portugal Fernando Pessoa 193
The Wall Jumper (Der Mauerspringer), 1982 West and East Berlin, Germany Peter Schneider 196
Bright Lights, Big City, 1984 New York City, USA Jay Mcinerney 200
Potiki, 1986 Hongoeka Bay, North Island, New Zealand Patricia Grace 203
In the Skin of a Lion, 1987 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Michael Ondaatje 205
Tracks, 1988 Turtle Mountain Reservation, North Dakota, USA Louise Erdrich 208
Cloudstreet, 1991 Perth, Australia Tim Winton 210
The Shipping News, 1993 Newfoundland, Canada E. Annie Proulx 214
The Summer of the Ubume (Ubume no natsu), 1994 Tokyo, Japan Natsuhiko Kyôgoku 218
Icefields, 1995 Jasper, Alberta, Canada Thomas Wharton 220
The Search Warrant (Dora Bruder), 1997 Paris, France Patrick Modiano 222
The Shadow of the Wind (La sombra del viento), 2001 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Carlos Ruiz Zafón 224
Snow (Kar), 2002 Kars, Turkey Orhan Pamuk 226
The Secret River, 2005 Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia Kate Grenville 230
My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale), 2011 Naples, Italy Elena Ferrante 232
The Explosion Chronicles (Zhàliè zhì), 2013 Henan Province, People's Republic of China Yan Lianke 235
The Luminaries, 2013 Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand Eleanor Catton 238
The Lives of Others, 2014 Kolkata, West Bengal, India Neel Mukherjee 240
Golden Hill, 2016 New York, USA Francis Spufford 242
Black Sugar (Azúcar negra), 2017 Amazon Rainforest, Venezuela Miguel Bonnefoy 244
Contributor Biographies 246
Index 252
Credits 255