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Landscape and Embodiment in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes and The True Heart

Baker, H.; (2018) Landscape and Embodiment in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes and The True Heart. The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society , 18 (5) pp. 45-65. 10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.05. Green open access

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Abstract

The essay contextualises Lolly Willowes and The True Heart in relation to interwar ideas about landscape and ruralism. It argues that the protagonists Laura Willowes and Sukey Bond depart from normative relationships to the English countryside in order to orient themselves more independently in their worlds. It suggests that Warner invests in potentialities of what Sara Ahmed analyses as ‘disorientation’, and that in her nuanced evocations of sexual deviance, landscapes become a prompt for the discursive construction of queer subjectivities.

Type: Article
Title: Landscape and Embodiment in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes and The True Heart
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.05
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.05
Language: English
Keywords: Warner, Lolly Willowes, The True Heart, Sara Ahmed, ruralism, landscape, disorientation, queer
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10059412
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