‘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...
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-12-01
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| Series: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
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| Online Access: | https://c21.openlibhums.org/articles/9 |