Descript |
xiv, 269 p. ; 23 cm. |
Contents |
Introducing the literary North / Katharine Cockin -- 'The chimneyed city': imagining the North in Victorian literature / Josephine M. Guy -- 'By the people, for the people': the literary North and the local press 1880-1914 / Jan Hewitt -- The sublime and satanic North: the potteries in George Moore's A mummer's wife (1885) and Arnold Bennett's Anna of the five towns (1902) / Ann Heilmann -- Clog-dancers and clay: empathy, geology and geography in Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger / Ruth Robbins -- 'Dirty old town': the ambivalent Northern city in Ewan MacColl's Landscape with chimneys / Claire Warden -- 'The North, my world': W.H. Auden's Pennine ways / Tony Sharpe -- Northern yobs: representations of youth in 1950s writing: Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse / Nick Bentley -- The unknown city: Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury / Sean O'Brien -- 'Northern working-class spectator sports': Tony Harrison's Continuous / Jo Gill -- The North-East as social landscape in the fiction of Robert Westall / Nolan Dalrymple -- 'Where you going now?': themes of alienation and belonging in the North-East in children's literature / Robert Lee -- The North of England in children's literature / Tess Cosslett -- The literary response to Moss Side, Manchester: fact or (genre) fiction? / Lynne Pearce -- Locating the literary North / Katharine Cockin. |
ISBN |
9780230367401 (hbk.) |
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