The Literary North
By: Edited by Katharine Cockin, Professor in English, University of Hull, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780230367401
Subjects: Social life and customs; English literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference; In literature; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History and criticism
Description: According to George Orwell, the North was 'a strange country'. In a grim, industrial landscape, its working-class inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world permanently caught in the piercing gaze of 1930s realism. Stereotypes of the North have been tenacious. This book challenges and analyzes the force of these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the longlasting effects of literary realism. This reassessment is introduced by Josephine Guy's analysis of the nineteenth-century industrial context and pursues a chronological journey through the worlds of children's literature, George Moore, Arnold Bennett, Ewan MacColl, the Northern local press, W.H. Auden, Alan Sillitoe, Richard Hoggart, Keith Waterhouse, Tony Harrison, Andrea Dunbar, Jim Cartwright, the AHRC Moving Manchester project and Northern cyberpunk. Sean O'Brien takes us to 'The Unknown City: Hull and the North in the poetry of Larkin, Dunn and Disbury'. Join us on this journey to defamiliarize and revitalize the Literary North.<br/>.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introducing the literary North / Katharine Cockin; title: The chimneyed city : imagining the North in Victorian literature / Josephine Guy; title: By the people, for the people : the literary North and the local press, 1880-1914 / Jan Hewitt; title: 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; title: Clog-dancers and clay : the geography of Arnold Bennett's North in Clayhanger / Ruth Robbins; title: Dirty old town : the presentation of the northern cityscape in Ewan MacColl's Landscape with chimneys / Claire Warden; title: The North, my world : W.H. Auden's Pennine ways / Anthony Sharpe; title: Northern yobs : representations of youth in 1950s writing :  Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse / Nick Bentley; title: The unknown city : Hull and the North in the poetry of Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury / Sean O'Brien; title: Northern working-class spectator sports : Tony Harrison's Continuous / Jo Gill; title: North-east childhood : representations of the North-east of England in the work of Robert Westall / Nolan Dalrymple; title: Where you going now? : themes of alienation and belonging in the North-east in children's literature / Robert Lee; title: The North in Children's fiction / Tess Cosslett; title: The literary response to Moss Side, Manchester : fact or (genre) fiction? / Lynne Pearce; title: Locating the literary North / Katharine Cockin.