Explores the regional contexts of literary modernism, reading international aesthetics through local cultures Where 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 not only identifies and appraises the local attachments of modernist texts in particular geographical regions, but also interrogates the very idea of the 'regional' in light of the alienating displacements of transnational modernity. Besides making fresh interventions in the field of modernist studies, many of the essays collected here seek to 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. Neal Alexander lectures in English literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Ciaran Carson: Space, place, writing (2010) and co-editor (with David Cooper) of Poetry & Geography: Space and Place in Post-war Poetry (2012). James Moran is Associate Professor of drama at the University of Nottingham and the author of a number of books and articles about the literature of Ireland and the cultural history of the English midlands, including Staging the Easter Rising (2005), Irish Birmingham: A History (2010), and The Theatre of Seán O'Casey (2013). Cover image: Two Travellers, Jack B. Yeats, 1942. (c) Estate of Jack B Yeats. All rights reserved, DACS 2012/Tate Images, Tate, London 2012.