ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with Galsworthy’s making of The Man of Property: a difficult novel that dealt with themes of marital rape, megalomania and divorce, topics that were still not considered wholly appropriate subject matter for turn of the century audiences. It aims to follow work in literary studies and geography that has sought to examine the aspects of composition and creativity that resist and elude rational accounting. J. Wylie’s interest in writing-through centres on landscape writing as a particular, albeit largely overlooked, literary genre. It is a genre that draws from regional writing and travel writing, where sense of place and geographical perspective are critical to both the process and product of writing. The chapter brings together ideas of writing-through with the close-reading strategies of literary geography to suggest that both can illuminate the things that happen before the text.
