War and Weather: Memory, Symbol and Estrangement in A Girl in Winter
This chapter addresses Larkin’s singular approach to scene-setting in the novel A Girl in Winter. It explores these concerns principally through the eyes of Katherine Lind, its immigrant protagonist, focusing particularly on the former’s tendency to deriv
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Alex Howard
Larkin’s Travelling Spirit
Alex Howard
Larkin’s Travelling Spirit The Place, Space and Journeys of Philip Larkin
Alex Howard University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
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To my parents and Ellie
Acknowledgements
Firstly, I would like to thank my parents, Maria and Michael Howard, for their continual love and support, as well as that of my fiancée, Ellie Robert. I am indebted to the University of Edinburgh’s Dr. Lee Spinks and Professor James Loxley without whose expertise and advice this project would never have materialised. I also wish to thank Dr. Jonathan Wild, for his constant support and encouragement and always having an open door, and to Professor Penny Fielding for giving me the idea and confidence to pursue a PhD in the first place. Thanks, too, must go to Dr. Alan Gillis and Dr. Rory Waterman— my viva examiners—whose eminent comments helped shape and polish this work. I am also grateful to Michele Beadle and Neil Chadwick of the Hull History Centre and to the Arts and Humanities Research council for supplying me with the full scholarship needed to undertake this research. I cannot overlook the support of my friends and colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, and Capital Theatres, Edinburgh, whose levity, wit and conversation helped me towards completing this project in more ways that can be expressed here. Thanks, as well, to fellow Charle
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