Dislocations
Stephen Fender, 19 January 1989
Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America: The world turned upside down
by Robert Lawson-Peebles.
Cambridge, 384 pp., £35, March 1988,0 521 34647 9 Show More
by Robert Lawson-Peebles.
Cambridge, 384 pp., £35, March 1988,
Mark Twain’s Letters. Vol. I: 1853-1866
edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael Frank and Kenneth Sanderson.
California, 616 pp., $35, May 1988,0 520 03668 9 Show More
edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, Michael Frank and Kenneth Sanderson.
California, 616 pp., $35, May 1988,
A Writer’s America: Landscape in Literature
by Alfred Kazin.
Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £15.95, September 1988,0 500 01424 8 Show More
by Alfred Kazin.
Thames and Hudson, 240 pp., £15.95, September 1988,
“... What constitutes an American writer’s landscape? In Great Britain it’s common to refer to ‘Brontë country’ or ‘Hardy country’. The Lake District belongs to Wordsworth more than to any landowner. But ‘Hemingway country’? He lived in at least thirty parts of the United States, not to mention Cuba, Paris and the Riviera. Stephen Crane’s birthplace is now a children’s playground in New Jersey, William Faulkner’s a Presbyterian parsonage ... ”
