Norman Douglas, South Wind

Grove Koger (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1917

Places

Austria, Vorarlberg (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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At the time

South Wind

was published in mid-1917, Norman Douglas was wandering in central Italy. He had published three highly regarded travel works –

Siren Land

(1911),

Fountains in the Sand

(1912), and

Old Calabria

(1915) – and until 1916 had worked as an editor with the

English Review.

Late that year, however, Douglas had been arrested for indecent behaviour with several boys in London, and after spending some time in jail, decided in early 1917 that an extended “trip to the sunny Mediterranean” was in order. He made his final corrections to the novel's proofs in Florence.

Appropriately enough, South Wind itself is a literary trip to that “sunny Mediterranean”, a compendium of much that Douglas had learned about the region in years of travel and sojourn. The novel is set on

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Citation: Koger, Grove. "South Wind". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 07 April 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1922, accessed 28 April 2024.]

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