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Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of ‘Englishness’.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Defining the North
2. Discovering the North
3. Writing the North
4. Speaking the North
5. Staging the North
6. Screening the North
7. Singing the North
8. Playing the North
9. The North in the National Imagination

Looking North Northern England and the National

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 7/15/2004 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719051784, 978-0719051784
    ISBN10: 0719051789
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of ‘Englishness’.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Defining the North
    2. Discovering the North
    3. Writing the North
    4. Speaking the North
    5. Staging the North
    6. Screening the North
    7. Singing the North
    8. Playing the North
    9. The North in the National Imagination

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