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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Regional Modernisms -- Chapter 1 'that trouble': Regional Modernism and 'little magazines' -- Chapter 2 The Regional Modernism of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce -- Chapter 3 J. M. Synge, Authenticity, and the Regional -- Chapter 4 Pound, Yeats, and the Regional Repertory Theatres -- Chapter 5 Capturing the Scale of Fiction at Mid-Century -- Chapter 6 Regionalism and Modernity: The Case of Leo Walmsley -- Chapter 7 Hugh MacDiarmid's Modernisms: Synthetic Scots and the Spectre of Robert Burns -- Chapter 8 Welsh Modernist Poetry: Dylan Thomas, David Jones, and Lynette Roberts -- Chapter 9 Between the Islands: Michael McLaverty, Late Modernism, and the Insular Turn -- Chapter 10 The Idea of North: Basil Bunting and Regional Modernism -- Select Bibliography -- Index Explores the regional contexts of literary modernism, reading international aesthetics through local culturesWhere did literary modernism happen? In this book, a range of scholars seek to answer this question, re-evaluating the parameters of modernism in the light of recent developments in literary geography as well as literary history, examining an array of different literary forms including novels, poetry, theatre, and 'little magazines'. The volume identifies and appraises the local attachments of modernist texts in particular geographical regions and also interrogates the idea of the 'regional' in light of the alienating displacements of transnational modernity.The essays collected here make fresh interventions in the field of modernist studies and acknowledge the legacies of regional modernisms for post-war representations of place and landscape. Individual essays discuss canonical figures (W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence) as well as more marginal or lesser-known writers (Dylan Thomas, Hugh MacDiarmid, J. M. Synge, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alfred Orage, Leo Walmsley, Lynette Roberts, Michael McLaverty, and Basil Bunting) from across Britain and Ireland
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