The Literary North

by Katharine Cockin (Editor)

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on Contributors Introducing the Literary North; K.Cockin 'The Chimneyed City': Imagining the North in Victorian Literature; J.Guy 'By the People, For the People': The Literary North and the Local Press 1880-1914; J.Hewitt The Sublime and Satanic The Potteries in George Moore's A Mummer's Wife (1885) and Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns (1902); A.Heilmann Clog-dancers and The Geography of Arnold Bennett's North in Clayhanger; R.Robbins 'Dirty Old Town': The Presentation of the Northern Cityscape in Ewan MacColl's Landscape with Chimneys ; C.Warden 'The North, My World': W.H. Auden's Pennine Ways; A.Sharpe Northern Representations of Youth in 1950s Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse; N.Bentley The Unknown Hull and the North in the poetry of Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury; S.O'Brien 'Northern Working-class Spectator Sports': Tony Harrison's Continuous; J.Gill North-east Representations of the North-east of England in the Work of Robert Westall; N.Dalrymple 'Where you going now?': Themes of Alienation and Belonging in the North-east in Children's Literature; R.Lee The North in Children's Fiction; T.Cosslett The Literary Response to Moss Side, Fact or (Genre) Fiction?; L.Pearce Locating the Literary North; K.Cockin Selected Bibliography Index

284 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2012