Wiseman's new book combines probing analysis of major canonical modernist authors with detailed scrutiny of critically overlooked interwar authors such as J. C. Powys and Mary Butts. This original project raises urgent questions about the cultural politics of space and place, and especially interwar fiction's intense engagement with, and representation of, 'wild', 'feral' or 'unhusbanded' localities on the fringes of ... Read morethe island nation. Wiseman shows that if there is a 'story' that these modernist authors repeatedly thematize in their fiction it is the existential repercussions of flight from, return to, the 'native'. Wiseman's astute emphasis on 'environmental description' will also prove suggestive to cultural historians who construe interwar literature through the critical prism of British neo-romanticism.
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