Regional Modernisms

Neal Alexander is Lecturer in Twentieth-century Literature at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Poetry & Geography (Liverpool University Press, 2013) and Regional Modernisms (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). James Moran is head of drama at the University of Nottingham and is the author of a number of books and articles about the literature of Ireland and the cultural history of the English midlands, including Staging the Easter Rising (Cork University Press, 2005), Irish Birmingham: A History (Liverpool University Press, 2010), and The Plays of Seán O’Casey (Methuen, 2013). He also presents the regular book-club feature on BBC Radio Nottingham.

• Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Regional modernisms, Neal Alexander and James Moran; 1. ‘that trouble’: Regional modernism and ‘little magazines’, Andrew Thacker; 2. The regional modernism of D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, Andrew Harrison; 3. J.M. Synge, authenticity, and the regional, Patrick Lonergan; 4. Pound, Yeats, and the regional repertory theatres, James Moran; 5. Capturing the scale of fiction at mid-century, David James; 6. Regionalism and modernity: The case of Leo Walmsley, Dominic Head; 7. Hugh MacDiarmid’s modernisms: Synthetic Scots and the spectre of Robert Burns, Drew Milne; 8. Welsh modernist poetry: Dylan Thomas, David Jones, Lynette Roberts, John Goodby and Chris Wigginton; 9. Between the islands: Michael McLaverty, late modernism, and the insular turn, John Brannigan; 10. The idea of north: Basil Bunting and regional modernism, Neal Alexander; Select Bibliography; Index.