Rewriting the North

Offers the first sustained critical assessment of twenty-first-century fiction about Northern England and uncovers the region’s evolving literary identity.

Brings together political philosophy and literary criticism to situate Northern England at the centre of a new devolutionary approach to contemporary British fiction.

Sheds new light on the relationship between literary culture and constitutional tensions throughout the UK, including regional devolution, English nationalism, Brexit, and globalisation.

Provides new scholarship on a wide range of six under-studied contemporary writers, including Sunjeev Sahota, Sarah Hall, Sarah Moss, and Fiona Mozley.