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The Literary North
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introducing the Literary North
- 2 'The Chimneyed City': Imagining the North in Victorian Literature
- 3 'By the People, for the People': The Literary North and the Local Press 1880–1914
- 4 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)
- 5 Clog-dancers and Clay: Empathy, Geology and Geography in Arnold Bennett's Clayhanger
- 6 'Dirty Old Town': The Ambivalent Northern City in Ewan MacColl's Landscape with Chimneys
- 7 'The North, My World': W. H. Auden's Pennine Ways
- 8 Northern Yobs: Representations of Youth in 1950s Writing: Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse
- 9 The Unknown City: Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury
- 10 'Northern Working-class Spectator Sports': Tony Harrison's Continuous
- 11 The North-East as Social Landscape in the Fiction of Robert Westall
- 12 'Where you going now?': Themes of Alienation and Belonging in the North-East in Children's Literature
- 13 The North of England in Children's Literature
- 14 The Literary Response to Moss Side, Manchester: Fact or (Genre) Fiction?
- 15 Locating the Literary North
- Select Bibliography
- Index