Hardyan Ruins in John Cowper Powys’s A Glastonbury Romance (1932) and Maiden Castle (1936)
These two novels by Powys are rich in ruins whether as visual motifs or as citations. Powys sees the Christian, Roman or pre-historic ruins that can be found everywhere in Wessex sometimes in a rather traditional way, sometimes in a more personal one. They testify to the eternal cycles of ‘rising an...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1319 |