The Literary North

Chapter 1 Introducing the Literary North

Chapter 2 ‘The Chimneyed City’: Imagining the North in Victorian Literature

Chapter 3 ‘By the People, for the People’: The Literary North and the Local Press 1880–1914

Chapter 4 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)

Chapter 5 Clog-dancers and Clay: Empathy, Geology and Geography in Arnold Bennett’s Clayhanger

Chapter 6 ‘Dirty Old Town’: The Ambivalent Northern City in Ewan MacColl’s Landscape with Chimneys

Chapter 7 ‘The North, My World’: W. H. Auden’s Pennine Ways

Chapter 8 Northern Yobs: Representations of Youth in 1950s Writing: Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse

Chapter 9 The Unknown City: Larkin, Dunn and Didsbury

Chapter 10 ‘Northern Working-class Spectator Sports’: Tony Harrison’s Continuous

Chapter 11 The North-East as Social Landscape in the Fiction of Robert Westall

Chapter 12 ‘Where you going now?’: Themes of Alienation and Belonging in the North-East in Children’s Literature

Chapter 13 The North of England in Children’s Literature

Chapter 14 The Literary Response to Moss Side, Manchester: Fact or (Genre) Fiction?

Chapter 15 Locating the Literary North