Catherine Cookson country : on the borders of legitimacy, fiction, and history
By: edited by Julie Anne Taddeo
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409405801
Subjects: In literature; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction/ Julie Anne Taddeo and Tabitha Sparks; title: Pt. 1. Literary paradigms and (il)legitimacy; title: Illegitimate histories: rape and illegitimacy in the novels of Catherine Cookson/ Diana Wallace; title: Lineage as destiny in Catherine Cookson's Our Kate: reprising the Victorian orphan tale/ Tabitha Sparks; title: "Love has as many facets as a bursting star": narrative and tolerance in the Black velvet gown/ Deborah Denenholz Morse; title: Catherine Cookson, Pierre Bourdieu, and the division of the literary field/ Bridget Fowler; title: Pt. 2. Catherine Cookson and her readers; title: Translating and conveying the damaging childhood in Our Kate/ Jo Parnell; title: Catherine Cookson's Mary Ann novels: the working-class experience of social and religious change in twentieth century North East England/ Mavis Aitchison; title: Loving the wingless bird: Cookson's wounded heroes and their readerly appeal/ Julie Anne Taddeo; title: Pt. 3. Cookson in context: the north east, social history, and the culture industry; title: Romancing the North East: fantasies of class in the regional novels of Catherine Cookson, 1950-1960/ John Fordham; title: The fifteen streets: representations of Irish identity in Catherine Cookson's early novels/ D.A.J. MacPherson; title: The Catherine Cookson television adaptation cycle: production, reception, and heritage/ James Leggott; title: On the Cookson trail: heritage, fiction, and personality tourism/ Lee Barron.