{"product_id":"peripheral-visions-9780708312605","title":"Peripheral Visions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThroughout 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884230783319,"sku":"9780708312605","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/peripheral-visions-9780708312605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}