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Book SynopsisThroughout contemporary British writing, the question of national identity recurs. This book investigates the ways in which contemporary British fiction disseminates a consciousness of local and national identity, and the ways in which the writers negotiate a space for their locality.
Table of ContentsThe passionate periphery - Cornwall and romantic fiction, Ella Westland; stories of bewilderment - current Scottish fiction, Dorothy Porter; Aztecs in Troedrhiwgwair - the Welsh novel, Tony Bianchi; writing on the edge of catastrophe, Wil Owen Roberts; fiction in conflict - Northern Ireland's prodigal novelists, Eve Patten; remembering poverty - fiction from the North-East, Penny Smith; mother to legend (or going underground) - the London novel, Ken Worpole; regional crime squads - location and dislocation in the British mystery, Stephen Knight; stop making sense - travel narratives in contemporary Britain, Ian A. Bell; writing from the margins - the lost community of the novel, George Wotton.
