{"product_id":"9780708313626","title":"Writers in a Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriters in a Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e studies the ways in which writers such as Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas and John Cowper Powys construct literary 'worlds' from actual places and landscapes. The author relates the literature of place to modern social and historical issues and is also concerned with the ways in which the writers use landscape and place to mediate a sense of the sacred in a period of widespread loss of orthodox religious belief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book explores specific works by this cluster of authors who are also discussed in relation to each other. The discussion is broadened to consider the literary se of place in general, and, in particular, works such as Golding's \u003ci\u003eThe Spire\u003c\/i\u003e and V. S. Naipaul's \u003ci\u003eThe Enigma of Arrival.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014467404016,"sku":"9780708313626","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780708313626_p0.jpg?v=1763621953","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780708313626","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}