Description: New essays engaging with the developing field of literary geography to devote attention to the "regional" settings of Munro's stories and how they affect her characters' development or stasis.
Brief description: Dr Ailsa Cox is Reader and Tutor in Creative Writing, Edge Hill University, Liverpool. In addition to teaching creative writing she has published short stories in several magazines and anthologies; she was co-editor of Metropolitan Magazine and a contributor to The Creative Writing Handbook.
Review Quotes: [B]ooks such as Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction may find grateful readerships not only in experienced Canadianists, and especially Munrovians, but also among the younger generation of readers and scholars . Space and Place in Alice Munro's Fiction is a praiseworthy effort and an invitation to further debates.-- "THE CANADIAN REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/REVUE CANADIENNE DE LITTÉRATURE COMPARÉE"