The regional novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990 /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description:1 online resource ( x, 300 pages) : illustrations, map
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12663829
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Other authors / contributors:Snell, K. D. M.
ISBN:9780511597688
0511597681
0521381975
9780521381970
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Print version: Regional novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
Table of Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • 1. The regional novel: themes for interdisciplinary research
  • 2. Regionalism and nationalism: Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott and the definition of Britishness
  • 3. The deep romance of Manchester: Gaskell's 'Mary Barton'
  • 4. Geographies of Hardy's Wessex
  • 5. Gender and Cornwall: Charles Kingsley to Daphne du Maurier
  • 6. James Joyce and mythic realism
  • 7. Cookson, Chaplin and Common: three northern writers in 1951 Robert Colls
  • 8. Emyr Humphreys: regional novelist?
  • 9. Scotland and the regional novel
  • 10. Mapping the modern city: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham novels
  • Index