Thinking Northern: Textures of Identity in the North of England. (Spatial Practices)
by Christoph Ehland
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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 show more 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. show lessMembers
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Christoph Ehland is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn in Germany. He has published on Scottish writing, writer's biographies and cultural conceptions of space and mobility from the early modern period to the present. Cornelia Wchter is Assistant Professor of British Literary and Cultural Studies at show more the University of Paderborn, Germany. She is the author of Place-ing the Prison Officer: The 'Warder' in the British Literary and Cultural Imagination (Rodopi/Brill, 2015). show less
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- 942.7 — History & geography History of Europe England and Wales Northwest England and Isle of Man
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- DA670 .N73 .T45 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England Local history and description Counties, regions, etc., A-Z
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