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Description for The Literary North
Hardcover. According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the effects of literary realism. Editor(s): Cockin, Katharine. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 470.
According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the effects of literary realism.
According to Orwell, the North was 'a strange country.' In an industrial landscape, its inhabitants seem to inhabit a bleak world caught in the gaze of 1930s realism. Such stereotypes have been tenacious. This book challenges these stereotypes, establishing the strategic and mobile nature of 'the North' and the effects of literary realism.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230367401
SKU
V9780230367401
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Ref
99-15
About N/A
NICK BENTLEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Keele University, UK TESS COLLETT Independent scholar, UK JO GILL Senior Lecturer in English, University of Exeter, UK ANN HEILMANN Professor of English, University of Hull, UK ROBERT LEE (1959-2010) Lecturer at the University of Teeside, UK SEAN O'BRIEN Professor of Creative Writing, Newcastle University, UK LYNNE PEARCE Chair of Literary Theory and ... Read more
Reviews for The Literary North
'...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