LEADER 03629nam 22007331c 450 001 9910459653503321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-4272-X 010 $a1-282-52598-0 010 $a9786612525988 010 $a1-4411-1795-4 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472542724 035 $a(CKB)2670000000013670 035 $a(EBL)495347 035 $a(OCoLC)609858447 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000364548 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12110443 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364548 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10413457 035 $a(PQKB)10246326 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC495347 035 $a(PPN)158029666 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL495347 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10373293 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL252598 035 $a(OCoLC)893334858 035 $a(OCoLC)614410184 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255860 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000013670 100 $a20140929d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostmodern fiction and the break-up of Britain $fHywel Dix 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cContinuum $d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 225 1 $aContinuum literary studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-6419-7 311 $a1-84706-407-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [164]-167) and index 327 $aIntroduction -- 1.The Novel - and Britain - in Transition -- 2. Voyages In  -- 3.The Spatial Turn -- 4.Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture -- 5. A Borderless World -- 6. Race, Reading and Identification -- Conclusion -- Bibliography 330 8 $aThis study explores how British identity has been explored and renegotiated by contemporary writers. It starts by examining the new emphasis on space and place that has emerged in recent cultural analysis, and shows how this spatial emphasis informs different literary texts. Having first analysed a series of novels that draw an implicit parallel between the end of the British Empire and the break-up of the unitary British state, the study explores how contemporary writing in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to a sense of nationhood in those places, and so contributes to the break-up of Britain symbolically. Dix argues that the break-up of Britain is not limited to political devolution in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is also an imaginary process that can be found occurring on a number of other conceptual coordinates. Feminism, class, regional identities and ethnic communities are all terrains on which different writers carry out a fictional questioning of received notions of Britishness and so contribute in different ways to the break-up of Britain 410 0$aContinuum literary studies. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $2Literary studies: from c 1900 - 606 $aRegionalism in literature 606 $aRegionalism$zGreat Britain 606 $aNational characteristics, British, in literature 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRegionalism in literature. 615 0$aRegionalism 615 0$aNational characteristics, British, in literature. 676 $a823/.91409 700 $aDix$b Hywel Rowland$0943736 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459653503321 996 $aPostmodern fiction and the break-up of Britain$92130402 997 $aUNINA