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'.
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
