Literary North

NICK BENTLEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Keele University, UKTESS COLLETT Independent scholar, UKJO GILL Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UKANN HEILMANN Professor of English, University of Hull, UKROBERT LEE (1959-2010) Lecturer at the University of Teeside, UKSEAN O'BRIEN Professor of Creative Writing, Newcastle University, UKLYNNE PEARCE Chair of Literary Theory and Women's Writing, Lancaster University, UKRUTH ROBBINS Professor of English and Head of the School of Cultural Studies and Humanities, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKTONY SHARPE Lecturer, Lancaster University, UKCLAIRE WARDEN Lecturer in Drama, University of Lincoln, UK

• 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 North: 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 Clay: 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 Yobs: Representations of Youth in 1950s Writing: Hoggart, Sillitoe and Waterhouse; N.Bentley The Unknown City: 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 Childhood: 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, Manchester: Fact or (Genre) Fiction?; L.Pearce Locating the Literary North; K.Cockin Selected Bibliography Index

'...a readable, ground-breaking collection that ranges chronologically from nineteenth-century regional and industrial novels to Northern cyberpunk...would certainly appeal to a wider audience' - David Collard, TLS