Catherine Cookson country : on the borders of legitimacy, fiction, and history /: on the borders of legitimacy, fiction, and history. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Julie Anne Taddeo.
• Other Names: Taddeo, Julie Anne
• Contents: Contents: Foreword, Kathleen Jones; Introduction, Julie Anne Taddeo and Tabitha Sparks; Part 1 Literary Paradigms and (Il)Legitimacy: Illegitimate histories: rape and illegitimacy in the novels of Catherine Cookson, Diana Wallace; Lineage as destiny in Catherine Cookson's Our Kate: reprising the Victorian orphan tale, Tabitha Sparks; 'Love has as many facets as a bursting star': narrative and tolerance in The Black Velvet Gown, Deborah Denenholz Morse; Catherine Cookson, Pierre Bourdieu, and the division of the literary field, Bridget Fowler. Part 2 Catherine Cookson and Her Readers: Translating and conveying the damaging childhood in Our Kate, Jo Parnell; Catherine Cookson's Mary Ann novels: the working class experience of social and religious change in 20th-century North East England, Mavis Aitchison; Loving the wingless bird: Cookson's wounded heroes and their readerly appeal, Julie Anne Taddeo. Part 3 Cookson in Context: the North East, Social History, and the Culture Industry: Romancing the North East: fantasies of class in the regional novels of Catherine Cookson, 1950-1960, John Fordham; The 15 Streets: representations of Irish identity in Catherine Cookson's early novels, D.A.J. MacPherson; The Catherine Cookson television adaptation cycle: production, reception and heritage, James Leggott; On the Cookson trail: heritage, fiction and personality tourism, Lee Barron; Afterword, Barbara Caine; Index.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Subjects: 823.914; Themes, motives; Settings; Appreciation; Television adaptations
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351953177; 1351953176
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