Sussex writers in their landscape : self-fulfilment in the age of the machine
Brandon, Peter2023
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The Sussex landscape is here celebrated by writers and poets, both famous and lesser-known, as we trace their search for rural peace and beauty in the tumultuous years 1850 to 1939. We trace the corpus of Sussex writing which was connected to those wider events but was equally a hymn of praise to rural Sussex, seen as nourishing, sympathetic and, for some, a retreat from the stresses of burgeoning city life or the horrors of mechanised warfare. We meet Wilfred Blunt and learn of his love for his Wealden countryside; we encounter the complex Hilaire Belloc; the acute observations of Richard Jefferies and Rudyard Kipling; and the modernity of Virginia Woolf. Lesser-known writers are included too, such as Charles Dalmon or Dr Habberton Lulham, who loved spending time with the downland shepherds or with travelling folk among the byways of the county.
Main title:
Sussex writers in their landscape : self-fulfilment in the age of the machine / Peter Brandon ; edited by Brian Short.
Imprint:
Cheltenham : The History Press, 2023.Cheltenham : The History Press, 2023.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781803993645 (pbk)
Dewey class:
304.2094225
Language:
English
Subject:
Cultural landscapes -- England -- SussexSussex (England) -- History -- 19th centurySussex (England) -- History -- 20th centurySussex (England) -- In literatureLandscapes in literatureIndustrialization in literatureEnvironment and EcologySussex19th century, c 1800 to c 189920th century, c 1900 to c 1999Biography: literarySociology & anthropology
BRN:
2859427