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The Literary North

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  • © 2012

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  1. Katharine Cockin

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introducing the Literary North

    • Katharine Cockin
    Pages 1-21

  3. ‘The Chimneyed City’: Imagining the North in Victorian Literature

    • Josephine M. Guy
    Pages 22-37

  4. ‘By the People, for the People’: The Literary North and the Local Press 1880–1914

    • Jan Hewitt
    Pages 38-55

  5. 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
    Pages 56-72

  6. Clog-dancers and Clay: Empathy, Geology and Geography in Arnold Bennett’s Clayhanger

    • Ruth Robbins
    Pages 73-86

  7. ‘Dirty Old Town’: The Ambivalent Northern City in Ewan MacColl’s Landscape with Chimneys

    • Claire Warden
    Pages 87-106

  8. ‘The North, My World’: W. H. Auden’s Pennine Ways

    • Tony Sharpe
    Pages 107-124

  9. Northern Yobs: Representations of Youth in 1950s Writing: Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse

    • Nick Bentley
    Pages 125-144

  10. The Unknown City: Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury

    • Sean O’Brien
    Pages 145-156

  11. ‘Northern Working-class Spectator Sports’: Tony Harrison’s Continuous

    • Jo Gill
    Pages 157-174

  12. The North-East as Social Landscape in the Fiction of Robert Westall

    • Nolan Dalrymple
    Pages 175-187

  13. ‘Where you going now?’: Themes of Alienation and Belonging in the North-East in Children’s Literature

    • Robert Lee
    Pages 188-204

  14. The North of England in Children’s Literature

    • Tess Cosslett
    Pages 205-219

  15. The Literary Response to Moss Side, Manchester: Fact or (Genre) Fiction?

    • Lynne Pearce
    Pages 220-239

  16. Locating the Literary North

    • Katharine Cockin
    Pages 240-252

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 253-269
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About this book

According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the effects of literary realism.

Reviews

'...a readable, ground-breaking collection that ranges chronologically from nineteenth-century regional and industrial novels to Northern cyberpunk...would certainly appeal to a wider audience' - David Collard, TLS

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Hull, UK

    Katharine Cockin

About the editor

NICK BENTLEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Keele University, UK TESS COLLETT Independent scholar, UK JO GILL Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK ANN HEILMANN Professor of English, University of Hull, UK ROBERT LEE (1959-2010) Lecturer at the University of Teeside, UK SEAN O'BRIEN Professor of Creative Writing, Newcastle University, UK LYNNE PEARCE Chair of Literary Theory and Women's Writing, Lancaster University, UK RUTH ROBBINS Professor of English and Head of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK TONY SHARPE Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK CLAIRE WARDEN Lecturer in Drama, University of Lincoln, UK

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