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- British_regional_literature abstract "In literature regionalism refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape, of a particular region (also called local colour): "Such a locale is likely to be rural and/or provincial." Thomas Hardy's (1840-1928) novels can be described as regional because of the way he makes use of these elements in relation to a part of the West of England, that he names Wessex. On the other hand it seems much less appropriate to describe Charles Dickens (1812–70) as a regional novelist of London and the south of England.The regional novel is generally seen as originating with Maria Edgeworth and Walter Scott, but their regions are hardily "comparable to Hardy's Wessex, Blackmore's Exmoor, or Arnold Bennett's potteries, ... [because] they are nations." The term has also been used, in the past, disparagingly, especially with regard to women writers, as a synonym for minor writing.Other writers that have been characterized as regional novelists, are the Brontë sisters, and writers like Mary Webb (1881-1927), Margiad Evans (1909–58) and Geraint Goodwin (1903–42), who are associate with the Welsh border region. Alfred Tennyson (1809–92) has been identified as a Lincolnshire poet, while Philip Larkin (1922–85) is principally associated with the city of Hull, and Basil Bunting (1900–85) with Northumberland. Then there is William Wordsworth (1770-1850), and the other Lake Poets, while the poet William Barnes (1801–86) is seen as primarily a Dorset poet, especially because of his use of Dorset dialect. George Eliot (1801–86) on the other hand is particularly associated with the rural English Midlands, whereas Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) is the novelist of the Potteries in Staffordshire, or the "Five Towns", (actually six) that now make-up Stoke-on-Trent. R. D. Blackmore (1825 – 1900), was one of the most famous English novelists of the second half of the nineteenth century, and he shared with Thomas Hardy a Western England background and a strong sense of regional setting in his works. Noted for his eye for and sympathy with nature, critics of the time described this as one of the most striking features of his writings. He may be said to have done for Devon what Sir Walter Scott did for the Highlands and Hardy for Wessex. However, Blackmore is now remembered for one work, Lorna Doone.For information on Welsh regional writers, see Welsh literature in English".
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- British_regional_literature comment "In literature regionalism refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape, of a particular region (also called local colour): "Such a locale is likely to be rural and/or provincial." Thomas Hardy's (1840-1928) novels can be described as regional because of the way he makes use of these elements in relation to a part of the West of England, that he names Wessex.".
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