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Margaret Drabble on the Romantics

by Margaret Drabble

Romantic writers and the landscapes of Britain

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Romantic writers and the landscapes of Britain

Margaret Drabble examines how British landscapes became closely associated with Romantic writers and their successors, from the Lake District and Scottish Borders to West Yorkshire, North Wales and Cornwall. The book considers the range of rural settings in their work, including both wild coastlines and quiet villages, and traces the presence of myth, legend, art and earlier literature in how those places were understood. It also explores a two-way relationship: landscapes informed literary work, while writing helped shape later visual attitudes, tastes in scenery and ideas about humanity’s relation to nature.

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  • Readers interested in British Romantic writers and the places associated with them.
  • Readers exploring landscape, literature, and cultural attitudes toward nature.
  • Readers interested in connections between literature, art, myth, and place.

Themes

British RomanticismLandscape and placeLiterature and visual cultureMyth and legendHumanity and nature

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Book overview

Margaret Drabble on the Romantics presents an image of Britain as seen through the eyes of some of its most celebrated writers. Many of the Romantics, as well as their successors, are closely associated with particular landscapes--the Wordsworths with the Lake District, Walter Scott with the Scottish Borders, and the Bronte] sisters with West Yorkshire. Drabble deepens our understanding of this connection, unpacking the Romantics' fascination with all varieties of rural landscape, from roaring seas to tranquil villages, while also exploring their writing's subtler associations.

Herself a literary luminary, Drabble illuminates how this love of place fashioned some of the Romantics' greatest works. She considers the resonances of myth and legend, art and earlier literature that the Romantics found in places such as North Wales and Cornwall, and investigates how their writing has, in turn, shaped our visual attitudes, taste in landscape and relation to nature.

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