The British River-Disaster Genre: "The Willows" is a Reverse "Three Men in a Boat"
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Previously in reverse plots coverage: City Slickers is a reverse Cain and Abel and The Talented Mr. Ripley is a reverse A Room With a View. Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows is a “weird fiction” novella from 1907 that did a great deal for the “unsettling trees” genre
"The Land doesn't want us here" is such a pervasive British Lit motif and I have a loose theory that it evolved from centuries of Brits encountering Not Being Wanted by everyone whose shores they landed on and sort of sublimating the opinions of people they didn't value into some vaguely defined personification of The Land which they did value (in their own fucked up little way).
"The Land doesn't want us here" is such a pervasive British Lit motif and I have a loose theory that it evolved from centuries of Brits encountering Not Being Wanted by everyone whose shores they landed on and sort of sublimating the opinions of people they didn't value into some vaguely defined personification of The Land which they did value (in their own fucked up little way).