Sussex Writers in their Landscape

Name: Sussex Writers in their Landscape | Self-fulfilment in the Age of the Machine
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Self-fulfilment in the Age of the Machine

Peter Brandon(Autor*in)

Brian Short(Herausgeber*in)

The History Press Ltd

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Erschienen am 19. Oktober 2023

320 Seiten

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Intro
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Editor's Preface (Brian Short)
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 A Second Eden
Filling Veins with Life
Trumpeting Sussex with Religious Fervour
2 Sussex Places and the Artistic Imagination
In the Beginning
Seeing the Light in the West
The East Comes into View
The Unsought Sussex Landscapes
3 Forging the Sussex Literary Tradition
Garlanding Downland Verse
William Hay (1695-1756)
The Reverend James Hurdis (1763-1801)
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
The Preconditions for a Sussex Literature, 1850-1939
Writers' Self-fulfilment in the Age of Anxiety
Sussex as London's 'Other' Beyond the Smoke
The Footpath Way to Literature
The Sound of Silence in the Beauty of Sussex
Metaphor and Iconography
The Challenge of a Transient Beauty
Establishing a Tradition
4 Living for the Open Air: Cottages and Gardens
The Writers' Sussex Cottage
The Meynells at Humphrey's Homestead
A Dream Become Real: D.H. Lawrence at Greatham
Ford Madox Ford Comes to Sussex and a Gingerbread Cottage
Ditchling Cottagers
5 An English Gentleman of Genius: Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)
A Sussex Squire on a Large Stage
Blunt's Sussex Weald
Blunt's Poetry
Anti-Imperialism
Blunt's Diaries
'I Was Lord There of My Own Manor'
6 Richard Jefferies (1848-87): The Influence of Natural Objects Upon the Human Mind
Jefferies and Sussex
'Sun Life' and Sussex Diary Entries
The Sea and the Fields
Jefferies: The Material and the Spiritual
7 In Hilaire Belloc's Country: 'This Eden That is Sussex Still'
The Complexity of Belloc
The Inspirational Centre of his Universe
At Home in Sussex
The Four Men and 'This Eden that is Sussex Still'
Belloc's Rise and Fall
8 Rudyard Kipling as a Sussex Writer
Kipling and the Downs
Kipling's Sussex Weald
Kipling's Wealden Environment and its People
Kipling's Motoring Genre
Kipling Country
9 Habberton Lulham
Towards a Fragment of Biography
Shepherds and the Freedom of the South Downs
An Intimacy with Nature Mixed with Humanitarian Concern
Love and a Sussex Retirement
10 Virginia Woolf at Rodmell
Early Days in Sussex
Seeing and Visiting the Sussex Landscape
Rodmell
Between the Acts
A Sussex Ending
11 A Sheaf of Twentieth-Century Writers
Sheila Kaye-Smith
Eleanor Farjeon
Amy Sawyer
S.P.B. Mais
Ernest Raymond
Stella Gibbons
12 Among Twentieth-Century Poets
Arthur Stanley Cooke
Arthur Bell
Charles Dalmon
Canon Andrew Young
Julian Heward Bell
Lady Dorothy Wellesley
13 The Land of Faery
Sussex Pharisees
Conjuring Fairyland in Music, Poetry and Prose
Extinguishing Faeryland
14 The Place of Sussex Literature in the Early Twentieth Century
Brimming with Delight
Building on a Heritage: English Neo-Romanticism
Anti-Modernism
Modernity or Post-Modernity in the Post-Industrial Age?
15 Final Thoughts: Literature, Place and Environment and the Road Not Taken (Brian Short)
The Choices Made
Sussex was Never a Wessex
The Varieties of Sussex
Cancellation: Reading the Work, Endorsing the Character?
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index

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