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Part I:Romantic prospects (up to 1914):Jane Austen, Bath, England --Alessandro Manzoni, Lombardy, Italy --Honore de Balzac, Paris, France --Emily Bronte, Yorkshire Moors, England --Charles Dickens, London, England --Victor Hugo, Paris, France --Leo Tolstoy, Tula Oblast, Russia --Thomas Hardy, Dorset, England --Mark Twain, Mississippi River, USA --Robert Louis Stevenson, Highlands, Scotland --August Strindberg, Kymmendö, Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden --H.G. Wells, Surrey, England --Lucy Maud Montgomery, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada --Willa Cather, Nebraska, USA. Part II:Mapping Modernism (1914-1945):D.H. Lawrence, Nottinghamshire, England --Sigrid Undset, Gudbrand Valley, Norway --Edith Wharton, New York City, USA --James Joyce, Dublin, Ireland --Thomas Mann, Alps, Switzerland --Virginia Woolf, London, England --F. Scott Fitzgerald, New York City and Long Island, USA --A.A. Milne, Ashdown Forest, East Sussex, England --Alberto Moravia, Rome, Italy --Alfred Döblin, Berlin, Germany --Isaac Babel, Odessa, Ukraine --Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland --Laura Ingalls Wilder, Kansas, USA --William Faulkner, Mississippi and Cambridge, Massachusettes, USA --Daphne du Maurier, Fowey, Cornwall, England --Ernest Hemingway, Guadarrama Mountains, Spain --Jorge Amado, Bahia, Brazil --John Steinbeck, Monterey, California, USA. Part III:Postwar panoramas:Gerard Reve, Amsterdam, Netherlands --Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo, Egypt --Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Spain --Raymond Chandler, Los Angeles, USA --Dylan Thomas, Laugharne, Wales --Yukio Mishima, Uta-Jima, Japan --Francoise Sagan, Côte d'Azur, France --Samuel Selvon, London, England --Grace Metalious, New Hampshire, USA --Patrick White, Outback, Australia --Elsa Morante, Provida, Bay of Naples, Italy --Chinua Achebe, Onitsha, East Bank Niger River, Nigeria --Harper Lee, Monroeville, Alabama, USA --Tarjei Vesaas, Telemark, Norway --Mikhail Bulgakov, Moscow, Russia --John Fowles, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England --Toni Morrison, Lorain, Ohio, USA --Tove Jansson, Pellinki Archipelago, Finland --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Solovetsky Islands, White Sea, Russia. Part IV:Contemporary geographies:Armistead Maupin, San Francisco, USA --Earl Lovelace, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago --Fernando Pessoa, Lisbon, Portugal --Peter Schneider, West and East Berlin, Germany --Jay McInerney, New York City, USA --Patricia Grace, Hongeoka Bay, North Island, New Zealand --Michael Ondaatje, Toronto, Canada --Louise Erdrich, Turtle Mountain Reservatin, North Dakota, USA --Tim Winton, Perth, Australia --E. Annie Proulx, Newfoundland, Canada --Natsuhiko Kyōgoku, Tokyo, Japan --Thomas Wharton, Jasper, Alberta, Canada --Patrick Modiano, Paris, France --Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain --Orhan Pamuk, Kars, Turkey --Kate Grenville, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales, Australia --Elena Ferrante, Naples, Italy --Yan Lianke, Henan Province, People's Republic of China --Eleanor Catton, Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand --Neel Mukherjee, Kolkata, West Bengal, India --Francis Spufford, New York, USA --Miguel Bonnefoy, Amazon Rainforest, Venezuela. "LITERARY LANDSCAPES delves deep into the geography, location, and terrain of our best-loved literary works and looks at how setting and environmental attributes influence storytelling, character, and our emotional response as readers. Fully illustrated with hundreds of full-color images throughout. Some stories couldn't happen just anywhere. As is the case with all great literature, the setting, scenery, and landscape are as central to the tale as any character, and just as easily recognized. LITERARY LANDSCAPES brings together more than 50 literary worlds and examines how their description is intrinsic to the stories that unfold within their borders. Follow Leopold Bloom's footsteps around Dublin. Hear the music of the Mississippi River steamboats that set the score for Huckleberry Finn. Experience the rugged bleakness of New Foundland in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News or the soft Neapolitan breezes in My Brilliant Friend. The landscapes of enduring fictional characters and literary legends are vividly brought to life, evoking all the sights and sounds of the original works. LITERARY LANDSCAPES will transport you to the fictions greatest lands and allow you to connect to the story and the author's intent in a whole new way"--
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