Rewriting the North Taylor & Francis Ltd

Rewriting the North situates Northern England at the centre of a new devolutionary approach to contemporary British fiction. This book argues that 21st century writing about Northern England imagines alternative democratic futures for the region and the English nation amidst Britain’s increasing constitutional instability. Through close readings of contemporary authors – Sunjeev Sahota, Sarah Hall, Anthony Cartwright, Adam Thorpe, Fiona Mozley, and Sarah Moss – it argues that literary engagement...