The Literary North [electronic resource] /
Cockin, K.editor.
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.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing the literary North / Katharine Cockin -- The chimneyed city : imagining the North in Victorian literature / Josephine 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 : the geography of Arnold Bennett's North in Clayhanger / Ruth Robbins -- Dirty old town : the presentation of the northern cityscape in Ewan MacColl's Landscape with chimneys / Claire Warden -- The North, my world : W.H. Auden's Pennine ways / Anthony Sharpe -- Northern yobs : representations of youth in 1950s writing :  Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse / Nick Bentley -- The unknown city : Hull and the North in the poetry of Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury / Sean O'Brien -- Northern working-class spectator sports : Tony Harrison's Continuous / Jo Gill -- North-east childhood : representations of the North-east of England in the work 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 in Children's fiction / Tess Cosslett -- The literary response to Moss Side, Manchester : fact or (genre) fiction? / Lynne Pearce -- Locating the literary North / Katharine Cockin.
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.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.