Chloe Ashbridge

Rewriting the North (eBook, PDF)

Contemporary British Fiction and the Cultural Politics of Devolution

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Produktbeschreibung

It situates Northern England at the centre of a new devolutionary approach to contemporary British fiction. By reassessing the relationship between British literature and politics, it argues that 21st century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000874891
• Artikelnr.: 67717365

Autorenporträt

Chloe Ashbridge is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, where her research concerns the interplay between British literature and politics. She is the author of several publications on working-class writing and neoliberalism, regional uneven development in Brexit literature, and the relationship between the literary North and Black Britishness. Chloe is currently researching the function of regional literary awards in the context of Britain's devolving cultural and creative economy. Rewriting the North is her first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Declaration
Introduction: Placing the Cultural Politics of Devolution
Part 1: Stress Fractures
Chapter 1: Multicultural Britishness and the Urban North
Chapter 2: Post-British England and the Rural North
Part 2: Revolt
Chapter 3: Brexit England and the Deindustrial North
Chapter 4: Global Britishness and the Neo-Primitive North
Conclusion: Regional Development and the 'Cultural Turn'
Works Cited
Index