"For its magisterial scope and referential breadth, Lutwack’s book is essential for anyone interested in the interrelationships of place and literary value."—American Literature
"Lutwack has made a notable scholarly contribution with his book. The Role of Place in Literature has a place in literary studies."—Modern Age
"Will be of interest to geographers as well as to all readers who share a sensitivity to the rich rhetoric of place and a concern for the future of the earth."—Current Geographical Publications
The Role of Place in Literature is a groundbreaking study exploring the use of metaphors and images of place in literature. Lutwack takes a dynamic view of the relationship between place and the action or thought in a work. Drawing comparisons over a wide range of works, principally American and British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he illustrates how writers have charged different environments with symbolic and psychological meaning.
Leonard Lutwack was an American literary historian who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park, for more than three decades. He was the author of Heroic Fiction: The Epic Tradition and American Novels of the Twentieth Century.
6 x 9, 284 pages