Every Stranger a God
Hiking The English Moors
Published on 21. November 2019
168 pages
978-1-887043-62-5 (ISBN)
Description
Jill Franks is a professor of English and Film Studies whose scholarly books treat subjects such as film comedians, the British women's movement, and modernists' work on islands. This is her first non-scholarly work, yet her vocation is never far off the page: she enjoys literature too much to leave it out. After completing the Camino de Santiago in 2012 she vowed to hike across a different country every spring. She managed five more treks-across southern France, the Netherlands, England, Ireland, and Scotland-before her bad knee and the urge to write got in the way. She does, however, plan to rise like the phoenix and find one day another trail, another country.
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Content
- Intro
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- I: Charlotte, N.C., to London, U.K.: Gulliver Hates Humans
- II: Euston Station to St. Bee's Head: Harry Potter and Platform 9¾
- III: St. Bee's Head to Ennerdale: Am I Frankenstein or His Creature?
- IV: Ennerdale to Longthwaite: Recommending James Joyce to an Irishman
- V: Longthwaite to Patterdale: John Carey and Me, Unexpected Professors
- VI: Patterdale to Shap: Areopagitica for the New Age
- VII: Shap to Kirkby Stephen: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
- VIII: Kirkby Stephen to Keld: "To comprehend a nectar requires sorest need"
- IX: Keld to Grinton: The Tao of Pooh
- X: Grinton to Easby: Greet a Stranger as You Would a God
- XI: Easby to Lovesome Hill: The Elysian Fields and My Sister
- XII: Lovesome Hill to Osmotherley: Explaining Atheism to a Believer
- XIII: Osmotherley to Great Broughton: Lady Chatterley Loves Chicks
- XIV: Great Broughton to Blakey Ridge: The Lonely Cyclist of Wuthering Heights
- XV: Blakey Ridge to Grosmont: Holden Caulfield and Black Sheep Bitter
- XVI: Grosmont to Robin Hood's Bay: Stephen Dedalus and English Pride
- XVII: London to Boston: We All Live in Separate Pods
- Acknowledgments
- Literary and Cultural References
- About the Author
- About the Book
