Provinces of the Mind
The Modern Novel on Provincial Time
Provinces of the Mind
The Modern Novel on Provincial Time
304 pages | 8 halftones | 6 x 9
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature, Romance Languages
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Overture. The Politics and Aesthetics of Revolutionary Cartography
Chapter One. Melancholy Mediations: Balzac’s Provincial Readers
Chapter Two. Political Geography, Provincial Vernaculars, and the Novel of 1848
Chapter Three. Pastoral Vagrancy, Provincial Picaresque
Chapter Four. Hardy’s Middle Distances, from Wessex to Brazil
Chapter Five. Mourning for the Provinces
Chapter Six. Modernist Provinces, Anticolonial Pastoral
Conclusion. Cosmopolitan Provincialism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index