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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, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, 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, Assistant Professor of English, 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, Senior Lecturer in English Studies, University of Stirling, UK

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, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, 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, Assistant Professor of English, 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, Senior Lecturer in English Studies, University of Stirling, UK.

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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.

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