"The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990 and its forthcoming companion bibliography could be a helpful resource and goad to thought for those wishing to understand cultural affiliation and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland in all of their complexity." Stephanie Friedman, Modern Philology

• Preface and acknowledgements; 1. The regional novel: themes for interdisciplinary research K. D. M. Snell; 2. Regionalism and nationalism: Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott and the definition of Britishness Liz Bellamy; 3. The deep romance of Manchester: Gaskell's 'Mary Barton' Harriet Guest; 4. Geographies of Hardy's Wessex John Barrell; 5. Gender and Cornwall: Charles Kingsley to Daphne du Maurier Philip Dodd; 6. James Joyce and mythic realism Declan Kiberd; 7. Cookson, Chaplin and Common: three northern writers in 1951 Robert Colls; 8. Emyr Humphreys: regional novelist? M. Wynn Thomas; 9. Scotland and the regional novel Cairns Craig; 10. Mapping the modern city: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham novels Stephen Daniels and Simon Rycroft; Index.

"The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990 and its forthcoming companion bibliography could be a helpful resource and goad to thought for those wishing to understand cultural affiliation and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland in all of their complexity." Stephanie Friedman, Modern Philology

• Preface and acknowledgements; 1. The regional novel: themes for interdisciplinary research K. D. M. Snell; 2. Regionalism and nationalism: Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott and the definition of Britishness Liz Bellamy; 3. The deep romance of Manchester: Gaskell's 'Mary Barton' Harriet Guest; 4. Geographies of Hardy's Wessex John Barrell; 5. Gender and Cornwall: Charles Kingsley to Daphne du Maurier Philip Dodd; 6. James Joyce and mythic realism Declan Kiberd; 7. Cookson, Chaplin and Common: three northern writers in 1951 Robert Colls; 8. Emyr Humphreys: regional novelist? M. Wynn Thomas; 9. Scotland and the regional novel Cairns Craig; 10. Mapping the modern city: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham novels Stephen Daniels and Simon Rycroft; Index.

"The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990 and its forthcoming companion bibliography could be a helpful resource and goad to thought for those wishing to understand cultural affiliation and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and Ireland in all of their complexity." Stephanie Friedman, Modern Philology

• Preface and acknowledgements; 1. The regional novel: themes for interdisciplinary research K. D. M. Snell; 2. Regionalism and nationalism: Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott and the definition of Britishness Liz Bellamy; 3. The deep romance of Manchester: Gaskell's 'Mary Barton' Harriet Guest; 4. Geographies of Hardy's Wessex John Barrell; 5. Gender and Cornwall: Charles Kingsley to Daphne du Maurier Philip Dodd; 6. James Joyce and mythic realism Declan Kiberd; 7. Cookson, Chaplin and Common: three northern writers in 1951 Robert Colls; 8. Emyr Humphreys: regional novelist? M. Wynn Thomas; 9. Scotland and the regional novel Cairns Craig; 10. Mapping the modern city: Alan Sillitoe's Nottingham novels Stephen Daniels and Simon Rycroft; Index.