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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"Rewriting the North breaks new ground. This critically-informed and prescient study of the contemporary literary North moves deftly between cultural politics and literary aesthetics in order to propose an alternative future for the field."
- James Procter, Newcastle University, UK
"Rewriting the North registers the erratic pulse of contemporary British politics, especially in the post-Brexit moment. Ashbridge considers a range of understudied but significant texts, highlighting literature's ability to help clarify regional politics and the reverberations of devolution."
- Simon Lee, Texas State University, USA
"Devolution is about the political meaning of Not Being England. But as Ashbridge brilliantly shows, adjusting the UK constitutional order places new pressures on England's own nationhood and voice, sparking new questions of place, belonging and citizenship. (It turns out that a lot of England is also Not Being 'England'.) If Brexit underscores the ailments of British Literature as a critical paradigm, this path-breaking study shrewdly examines what - other than alternative literary nationalisms - might come next."
- Scott Hames, University of Stirling, UK
- James Procter, Newcastle University, UK
"Rewriting the North registers the erratic pulse of contemporary British politics, especially in the post-Brexit moment. Ashbridge considers a range of understudied but significant texts, highlighting literature's ability to help clarify regional politics and the reverberations of devolution."
- Simon Lee, Texas State University, USA
"Devolution is about the political meaning of Not Being England. But as Ashbridge brilliantly shows, adjusting the UK constitutional order places new pressures on England's own nationhood and voice, sparking new questions of place, belonging and citizenship. (It turns out that a lot of England is also Not Being 'England'.) If Brexit underscores the ailments of British Literature as a critical paradigm, this path-breaking study shrewdly examines what - other than alternative literary nationalisms - might come next."
- Scott Hames, University of Stirling, UK