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

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.

Journal

Journal ID (publisher-id): STW

Title: The Journal of the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society

Publisher: UCL Press

ISSN (Electronic): 2398-0605

Publication date (Electronic): 26 October 2018

Volume: 18

Issue: 1

Pages: 43-63

Affiliations

[1 ] Queen Mary University of London, UK

[* ] Correspondence: h.r.baker@ 123456qmul.ac.uk

DOI: 10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.05

Copyright statement: Copyright © 2018, Harriet Baker

License:

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited • DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.stw.2018.05

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