1st Edition

Place and the Scene of Literary Practice

By Angharad Saunders Copyright 2018
224 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The act of writing is intimately bound up with the flow and eddy of a writer’s being-within-the-world; the everyday practices, encounters and networks of social life. Exploring the geographies of literary practice in the period 1840-1910, this book takes as its focus the work, or craft, of authorship, exploring novels not as objects awaiting interpretation, but as spatial processes of making... Read more

Prologue

The Place and the Scene of Literary Practice

 

Part 1: The Place of Writing

1. Interpretations on an Interior

2. Holland Park, West Kensington, London

3. Posting over Seas: author, audience and the narration of place

 

Part 2: Writingscapes: writers at work

4. Bennett’s Writingscape

5. Trollope’s Work Plans: crafting The Bertrams (1859)

6. Writing-through: making The Man of Property (1906)

 

Part 3: En-route Writing

7. Trollope’s en-route writing

8. Galsworthy’s Epistolary Practices: the relational making of Fraternity (1909)

 

Epilogue: travelling objects

Biography

Angharad Saunders is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of South Wales, UK. Her research interests revolve around the literary and cultural geographies of the late Victorian and Edwardian period. In particular, she is interested the relationship between writing practice, as something more than a situated undertaking, and the imaginative worlds of the novel.