Table of Contents:
  • The regional novel: themes for interdisciplinary research / K.D.M. Snell
  • Regionalism and nationalism: Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott and the definition of Britishness / Liz Bellamy
  • The deep romance of Manchester: Gaskell's 'Mary Barton' / Harriet Guest
  • Geographies of Hardy's Wessex / John Barrell
  • Gender and Cornwall: Charles Kingsley to Daphne du Maurier / Philip Dodd
  • James Joyce and mythic realism / Declan Kiberd
  • Cookson, Chaplin, and Common: three northern writers in 1951 / Robert Colls
  • Emyr Humphreys: regional novelist? / M. Wynn Thomas
  • Scotland and the regional novel / Cairns Craig
  • Mapping the modern city: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham novel / Stephen Daniels and Simon Rycroft.