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BL
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948561
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b702931
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Dix, Hywel Rowland.
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Postmodern fiction and the break-up of Britain /\ Hywel Dix.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Continuum literary studies series
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1 online resource (170 pages)
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| ISBN
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1441117954
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: 1441164197
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: 1441190988
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: 147254272X
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: 9781441117953
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: 9781441164193
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: 9781441190987
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: 9781472542724
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1847064078
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9781847064073
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-167) and index.
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| Contents
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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: The Novel -- and Britain -- in Transition; Chapter Two: Voyages In; Chapter Three: High Rise; Chapter Four: Feminist Satires of Monarchic Culture; Chapter Five: A Borderless World; Chapter Six: Race, Reading and Identification; Conclusion: Break-Up or Make-Up?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W.
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| Abstract
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This 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 bre.
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English fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Regionalism-- Great Britain.
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English fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Regionalism.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.91409
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| LC Classification
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PR888.R45D59 2010eb
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