Writing Britain celebrates some of the most dazzling treasures of English literature, showcasing how Britain�� greatest authors have been inspired by, and have even redefined, their
country. From Chaucer�� pilgrims journeying from Southwark to Canterbury, to the twenty-first-century suburban hinterlands of J. G. Ballard, this book explores how the places and landscapes
of Britain permeate the nation�� great literary works and how these works have, in turn, helped shape our perception and understanding of landscape and place, both real and imagined.
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In addition to celebrating the traditional British landscape, the book also examines the literary construction of the city, following the mysterious fog-filled streets that stretch from the
London of Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson�� Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to the urban underworlds revealed by contemporary writers such as Neil Gaiman and Iain Sinclair.
Featuring such diverse landscapes as Emily Bront禱�� wild and windy Yorkshire Moors, Wordsworth�� Lake District, Elizabeth Gaskell�� industrial northern towns, the seaside turned nightmare of
Bram Stoker�� Dracula, Graham Greene�� seedy and menacing Brighton, Virginia Woolf�� Bond Street, and Hanif Kureishi�� suburbia, Writing Britain describes and illustrates the
work of over one hundred of the greatest British writers who have been inspired by place, spanning the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.
