AQA (A): Paper 2 ‘Modern times’: core set text
The regional novel is concerned with depicting the ways of life of a particular area (often a rural one). Scholars generally agree that its heyday was in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (through the Brontë sisters’ Yorkshire moors, Thomas Hardy’s Wessex and D. H. Lawrence’s midland mining communities, among others) and that it has been in decline since the Second World War. But Dominic Head, a leading scholar of modern fiction, argues that ‘it is also true that significant novels engaging with rural themes continue to be written’. 1983 might be one of the moments that Head has in mind when he refers to ‘the periodic aesthetic revival of an apparently dying tradition’.
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