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 Waterhou...
The article examines the work of cartography in the 1854/5 Gaskell novel North and South, which has ...
This thesis charts the development of my poetics through the writing of a prose poetry collection o...
This thesis is an historical investigation of the North of England in British fiction feature film r...
According to George Orwell, the North was 'a strange country'. In a grim, industrial landscape, its ...
During the time that George Orwell lived, the Britain society was on the edge of development and flu...
In my dissertation, I examine literature that participates in nineteenth-century British engagement ...
Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and t...
People become "conscious of entering a strange country" when they travel North observed George Orwel...
Where, in England, does the South end and the North begin? Despite a recent survey suggesting that o...
This thesis explores how children's writers have participated in the process of representing and con...
Drawing on a transnational turn in recent Scottish literary criticism, this dissertation examines a ...
Explores the regional contexts of literary modernism, reading international aesthetics through local...
Nature, North and Nation While it is true that the child is regularly “nationalized” in children’s ...
This thesis contends that a cr:itical approach to novels from the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and...
Mazierska sketches the dominant narrative of the North of England as that of an ‘oppressed region’, ...
The article examines the work of cartography in the 1854/5 Gaskell novel North and South, which has ...
This thesis charts the development of my poetics through the writing of a prose poetry collection o...
This thesis is an historical investigation of the North of England in British fiction feature film r...
According to George Orwell, the North was 'a strange country'. In a grim, industrial landscape, its ...
During the time that George Orwell lived, the Britain society was on the edge of development and flu...
In my dissertation, I examine literature that participates in nineteenth-century British engagement ...
Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and t...
People become "conscious of entering a strange country" when they travel North observed George Orwel...
Where, in England, does the South end and the North begin? Despite a recent survey suggesting that o...
This thesis explores how children's writers have participated in the process of representing and con...
Drawing on a transnational turn in recent Scottish literary criticism, this dissertation examines a ...
Explores the regional contexts of literary modernism, reading international aesthetics through local...
Nature, North and Nation While it is true that the child is regularly “nationalized” in children’s ...
This thesis contends that a cr:itical approach to novels from the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and...
Mazierska sketches the dominant narrative of the North of England as that of an ‘oppressed region’, ...
The article examines the work of cartography in the 1854/5 Gaskell novel North and South, which has ...
This thesis charts the development of my poetics through the writing of a prose poetry collection o...
This thesis is an historical investigation of the North of England in British fiction feature film r...