‘When the Reservoir Comes’: Drowned Villages, Community and Nostalgia in Contemporary British Fiction

A ‘drowned’ or flooded village describes the destruction of a settlement or community to make way for a reservoir; as a practice, it most commonly occurred in Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the need for fresh water in growing industrial cities was at its height. This essay will explore three different representations of the ‘drowned village’ in contemporary British fiction. Reginald Hill’s On Beulah Height (1992), Hilary Mantel’s short story ‘The Clean Slate’ (2001) and Sarah Hall’s Haweswater (2002) will all be considered in terms of how the drowned village is presented and described, and what this representation suggests about the ways nostalgia, ritual and ruin impact upon notions of community and place.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Pollard, Eileen Joy

Đề mục:

Literary Studies

Nhà xuất bản:

Open Library of Humanities

Ngày xuất bản:

2017

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pdf

Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.9

Nguồn gốc:

C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings; Volume 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1-21(2)

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ISSN 2045-5224

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