Landscape and Literature

by Stephen Siddall

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. Landscape and Literature introduces students to the exploration of different ways in which landscape has been represented in literature. It focuses on key aspects of this topic such as the importance of pastoral, contrasts between city and country, eighteenth-century developments from neo-classical to picturesque and Romantic ideas of the sublime, regional novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and varied styles of twentieth-century poetry from the Georgian poets to Heaney and Hughes. Poems and prose extracts from writers such as Marvell, Wordsworth, George Eliot, Hardy, Lawrence and Seamus Heaney are included.

Genres: Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Chaoter 4 and 5 definitely the most informative. Interesting but really did go on a bit too much.

[Claire Hadfield · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite dry in tone and therefore the first section is difficult to engage with. The questions and exercises are useful for A level and even undergraduate students.
Distinct lack or female authors discussed beyond Austen, the Brontes and occasional others; the lack of diversity is a shortcoming not entirely explained by the vast sweep and focus on landscape. Useful, but limited.