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'.
Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinati...
Nineteenth-century England was dismissed by foreign commentators as "the land without music." Focusing on popular music in the urban and industrial areas of England between 1840 and 1914, Dave Russell shows how untrue this was. Britain was an extraordinarily musical place during the Victorian and Edwardian periods, with homes, streets, public houses, and public parks serving as musical centres to almost the same extent as concert and music halls. In the metropolis, orchestras were formed and music halls attracted crowds, but musical talent was also nurtured energetically in the industrial...
Nineteenth-century England was dismissed by foreign commentators as "the land without music." Focusing on popular music in the urban and industrial ar...
Elise Cummings has waited sixty years for this moment. Ever since the girl was killed by two fellow students on the steps of the Raritan Female Institute, Elise has been waiting in her watery grave for the old school for troubled and wayward girls to be rebuilt.
Linda Smith is one of the fortunate students selected to attend the spanking new all-girl prep school on the banks of the Raritan River in New Jersey. The overweight and no-esteem girl sees it as an escape from high-school and three years of disinterested male faces. Linds soon finds, however, that nothing has changed: she is just...
Elise Cummings has waited sixty years for this moment. Ever since the girl was killed by two fellow students on the steps of the Raritan Female Instit...
