The Regional Geography of Thomas Hardy's Wessex

Darby, H. C.

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“…Geographers from humanistic, radical and regional perspectives have all deployed literature in a realist manner-as evocative and accurate depictions of place-used to add flavour and depth to geographical descriptions of landscape (Darby 1948;Pocock 1981aPocock , 1981bPocock , 1988. While the literary text may indeed pro-92 Nuala C. Johnson vide 'thick description ', Brosseau (1995) rightly points out that the novel is more than just a resource from which to excavate geographical facts or richly subjective accounts of place.…”

Section: Social and Cultural Geographymentioning

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Fictional journeys: paper landscapes, tourist trails and Dublin's literary texts

Johnson

2004

Social & Cultural Geography

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Section: Social and Cultural Geographymentioning

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Fictional journeys: paper landscapes, tourist trails and Dublin's literary texts

Johnson

2004

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…The few articles published before the 1970s were examining the relevance of regional novels as complements to regional geography (Darby, 1948;Gilbert, 1960). In a sense, they were working within the scope of historical geography to which they added a literary point of view.…”

Section: A New Object For Geographymentioning

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Geography's literature

Brosseau

1994

Progress in Human Geography

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Ontario K1 N 6N5, CanadaAmong the great variety of written documents that geographers use or reflect on, literature has gained considerable attention in the last 20 years. This interest in literature was first promoted in a bid to open geography to new fields and break up the monopoly of traditional sources. The rationale for resorting to literature has varied with time and theoretical frameworks. Geographers have considered the 'documentary' value of literary sources, sought to restore geography within the 'humanities', examined landscape perception or evaluated the didactic possibilities of literature. Various currents of the discipline have turned to literature in order to explore its relevance to different points of view: regionalists in search of more vivid description of place; humanists seeking evocative transcriptions of spatial experience; radicals concerned with social justice; others trying to establish parallels between the history of geographical and literary ideas; or more discursively-oriented researchers addressing the problems of representation. Nevertheless, the origins of the actual emergence of this field in geography reveals its originality within the human and social sciences.Many social and human sciences -certainly in France anyway -started to consider literature with greater scrutiny around the 1950s and 1960s in the wake of what has been referred to as the structural revolution. The emergence of structuralism and the parallel growth of social sciences have contributed to the intensification of the focus on literature. Putting language at the very core of these sciences -with linguistics as the 'guiding light' -structuralism has created an intellectual landscape favouring, as never before, interdisciplinary studies. Linguistics, semiotics, but also anthropology (which initiated the movement), psychoanalysis, philosophy and sociology, and others, followed suit. Within the emergence of this 'new paradigm', considerations on discourse, textuality or other semiotic systems became more frequent, often with a particular focus on literary productions. It is worth noting that within geography -which was rather slow or even reluctant to follow in this continental or French intellectual trend up until the mid-1970s

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“…Little more than a decade ago it was possible to identify a literary geographic tradition which stretched back to the early twentieth century and encompassed work of various theoretical and critical hues (Darby, 1948;Gilbert, 1960;Tuan, 1978;Thrift, 1983;Meinig, 1983). However, in the intervening years and against a background where the limits of mimetic and metaphorical studies have been widely pronounced upon, literary geography has been subject to some profound epistemological transformations.…”

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Literary geography: reforging the connections

Saunders

2009

Progress in Human Geography

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This article explores the current landscape of literary geography against the backdrop of a broadened interest in geography’s textual traditions. It suggests that after a period of relative health in the mid- to late twentieth century literary geography has been seemingly lost within wider debates over textual knowledges and practices as they pattern out within the discipline’s scientific history. Drawing on work from literary studies and geography, it goes on to propose three areas where there is opportunity for a literary geography to reassert itself and contribute forcefully to geographical debates.

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The Regional Geography of Thomas Hardy's Wessex

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Fictional journeys: paper landscapes, tourist trails and Dublin's literary texts

Fictional journeys: paper landscapes, tourist trails and Dublin's literary texts

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Literary geography: reforging the connections

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