Thinking northern : textures of identity in the north of England / edited by Christoph Ehland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebooks Corporation.

Ehland, Christoph.

Series:

Spatial practices ; 2.

Spatial practices, 1871-689X ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural landscapes--England, Northern.

Cultural landscapes.

Landscapes--Symbolic aspects--England, Northern.

Landscapes.

England, Northern--Historical geography.

England, Northern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Northern England and the Spaces of Identity / Christoph Ehland

Re-thinking Northern Politics? Northern England and Devolution / Thomas Leuerer

Dialect and Regional Identity in Northern England / Christoph Schubert

The ‘North’ of ‘England’: A Paradox? / Stephan Kohl

“Such girls as you would hardly see anywhere else in England…”: the ‘regional feminine’ of Mary Linskill’s fiction / Jan Hewitt

Diamonds or Beasts? Re-mapping English Conceptions of Northernness in the Late Victorian Periodical / Annisa Suliman

Northern Racism: A Pilot Study of Racism in Sunderland / Amir Saeed

Manchester and the “Hypocritical Plan”: Architecture, Shopping and Identity in the Industrial City / Mark Crinson

The New Livercool: History, Culture and Identity on Merseyside / John Belchem

The Lake District and Yorkshire Dales: Refuges from the Real World? / Ian Whyte

Beyond the Industrial Revolution: the Transformation of Britain’s Canals and their Cultural Meaning / Richard Stinshoff

Speed, Steam and Nostalgia: The Heritage Railways of Northern England / Konrad Schliephake and Keith Sutton

Constructing an Emblematic Northern Space under Thatcherism: The New Brighton Photographs of Martin Parr and Tom Wood / Merle Tönnies

Of Popular Spaces: Northern Heterotopias, Morrissey and the Manchester Britpop Scene / Ralph Pordzik

Between L.S. Lowry and Coronation Street: Salford Cultural Identities / Susanne Schmid

Classy Northerners: Class, Space and the Wonderful Illusion / Christoph Ehland

Northern England in Facts and Figures / Christoph Singer

Statistics: Population Resident Population Table 1a

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-47015-2

9786613470157

94-012-0499-3

1-4356-1228-0

OCLC:

182844031

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401204996 DOI