Thinking Northern
Textures of Identity in the North of England
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-90-420-2281-2 (ISBN)
Description
Thinking Northern offers new approaches to the processes of identity formation which are taking place in the diverse fields of cultural, economic, and social activity in contemporary Britain. The essays collected in this volume discuss the changing physiognomy of Northern England and provide a mosaic of recent thought and new critical thinking about the textures of regional identity in Britain. Looking at the historical origin of Northern identities and at current attitudes to them, the book explores the way received mental images about the North are re-deployed and re-contained in the ever-changing socio-cultural set-up of society in Northern England. The contributors address representation of Northernness in such diverse fields as the music scene, multicultural spaces, the heritage industries, new architecture, the arts, literature and film.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
868 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2281-2 (9789042022812)
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Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Christoph EHLAND: Introduction: Northern England and the Spaces of Identity
Chapter I: Infrastructures of Identity
Thomas LEUERER: Rethinking Northern Politics: Northern England and Devolution
Christoph SCHUBERT: Dialect and Regional Identity in North of England
Chapter II: Politics of the Imagination
Stephan KOHL: The 'North' of 'England': A Paradox?
Jan HEWITT: "Such girls as you would hardly see anywhere else in England...": The Regional Feminine in Mary Linskill's Fiction
Annisa SULIMAN: Diamonds or Beasts? Re-mapping English Conceptions of Northernness in the Late Victorian Periodical
Amir SAEED: Northern Racism: A Pilot Study of Racism in Sunderland
Chapter III: Landscaping
Marc CRINSON: Manchester and the "Hypocritical Plan": Architecture, Shopping and Identity in the Industrial City
John BELCHEM: The New Livercool: History, Culture and Identity on Merseyside
Ian D. WHYTE: The Lake District and Yorkshire Dales: Refuges from the Real World?
Richard STINSHOFF: Beyond the Industrial Revolution: The Transformation of Britain's Canals and their Cultural Meaning
Konrad SCHLIEPHAKE and Keith SUTTON: Speed, Steam and Nostalgia: The Heritage Railways of Northern England
Chapter IV: Mediascapes
Merle TOENNIES: Constructing an Emblematic Northern Space under Thatcherism: The New Brigthon Photographs of Martin Parr and Tom Wood
Ralph PORDZIK: Of Popular Spaces: Northern Heterotopias, Morrissey and the Manchester Britpop Scene
Susanne SCHMID: Between L.S. Lowry and Coronation Street: Salford Cultural Identities
Christoph EHLAND: Classy Northerners: Class, Space and the Wonderful Illusion
Appendix
Christoph SINGER: Northern England in Facts and Figures
Tables
Index
Notes on Contributors
Christoph EHLAND: Introduction: Northern England and the Spaces of Identity
Chapter I: Infrastructures of Identity
Thomas LEUERER: Rethinking Northern Politics: Northern England and Devolution
Christoph SCHUBERT: Dialect and Regional Identity in North of England
Chapter II: Politics of the Imagination
Stephan KOHL: The 'North' of 'England': A Paradox?
Jan HEWITT: "Such girls as you would hardly see anywhere else in England...": The Regional Feminine in Mary Linskill's Fiction
Annisa SULIMAN: Diamonds or Beasts? Re-mapping English Conceptions of Northernness in the Late Victorian Periodical
Amir SAEED: Northern Racism: A Pilot Study of Racism in Sunderland
Chapter III: Landscaping
Marc CRINSON: Manchester and the "Hypocritical Plan": Architecture, Shopping and Identity in the Industrial City
John BELCHEM: The New Livercool: History, Culture and Identity on Merseyside
Ian D. WHYTE: The Lake District and Yorkshire Dales: Refuges from the Real World?
Richard STINSHOFF: Beyond the Industrial Revolution: The Transformation of Britain's Canals and their Cultural Meaning
Konrad SCHLIEPHAKE and Keith SUTTON: Speed, Steam and Nostalgia: The Heritage Railways of Northern England
Chapter IV: Mediascapes
Merle TOENNIES: Constructing an Emblematic Northern Space under Thatcherism: The New Brigthon Photographs of Martin Parr and Tom Wood
Ralph PORDZIK: Of Popular Spaces: Northern Heterotopias, Morrissey and the Manchester Britpop Scene
Susanne SCHMID: Between L.S. Lowry and Coronation Street: Salford Cultural Identities
Christoph EHLAND: Classy Northerners: Class, Space and the Wonderful Illusion
Appendix
Christoph SINGER: Northern England in Facts and Figures
Tables
Index