The regional novel has been remarkably neglected as a subject, despite the enormous number of authors who can be classified as having written regional fiction. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from leading literary critics, historians, and cultural geographers, addresses the regional novel in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England. It establishes the broader social and political context in which these novels emerged, and by combining historical and literary approaches to the subject it explores contemporary manifestations of regionalism and nationalism in Britain and Ireland. The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland addresses novels from the eighteenth century to the present day, and will be of interest to literary and social historians as well as cultural critics.