Skip to main content

Distributed for University of Wales Press

Compatriots or Competitors?

Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts

A literary study of a productive unionist and nationalist tension in contemporary British culture.
 
As Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales gain self-governance from England, writers in these nations face new pressures to create distinctly national literatures. Compatriots or Competitors? examines the artistic tension in this work, as writers both emulate neighboring traditions and reinforce distinctions between nations. Across a range of texts from each of the United Kingdom’s four nations, Hywel Dix maps the creative productivity of this interplay between Unionism and nationalism across Great Britain.

352 pages | 4 halftones | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2022

University of Wales Press - Writing Wales in English

Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature

Media Studies

Political Science: Political and Social Theory


University of Wales Press image

View all books from University of Wales Press

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations5
Introduction: Compatriots or Competitors?6
Chapter 1: From Counter Culture to Creative Industries24
Chapter 2: The Cultural Capital of Capitals of Culture66
Chapter 3: Imaging Northern Europe: British Varieties of Nordic Noir 113
Chapter 4: Aspiration by Proxy: National Book Awards in International Markets 172
Chapter 5: Brexit and Beyond 236
Afterword: Brexit and Coronavirus 291
References 297

Be the first to know

Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists!

Sign up here for updates about the Press