The Literary North

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introducing the Literary North....Pages 1-21
‘The Chimneyed City’: Imagining the North in Victorian Literature....Pages 22-37
‘By the People, for the People’: The Literary North and the Local Press 1880–1914....Pages 38-55
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)....Pages 56-72
Clog-dancers and Clay: Empathy, Geology and Geography in Arnold Bennett’s Clayhanger....Pages 73-86
‘Dirty Old Town’: The Ambivalent Northern City in Ewan MacColl’s Landscape with Chimneys....Pages 87-106
‘The North, My World’: W. H. Auden’s Pennine Ways....Pages 107-124
Northern Yobs: Representations of Youth in 1950s Writing: Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse....Pages 125-144
The Unknown City: Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury....Pages 145-156
‘Northern Working-class Spectator Sports’: Tony Harrison’s Continuous....Pages 157-174
The North-East as Social Landscape in the Fiction of Robert Westall....Pages 175-187
‘Where you going now?’: Themes of Alienation and Belonging in the North-East in Children’s Literature....Pages 188-204
The North of England in Children’s Literature....Pages 205-219
The Literary Response to Moss Side, Manchester: Fact or (Genre) Fiction?....Pages 220-239
Locating the Literary North....Pages 240-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-269