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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

      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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