Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages offers a literary
history of the North-South divide, examining the complexities of
the relationship - imaginative, material, and political - between
North and South in a wide range of texts. Through sustained
analysis of the North-South divide as it emerges in the literature
of medieval England, this study illustrates the convoluted dynamic
of desire and derision of the North by the rest of country. Joseph
Taylor dissects England's problematic sense of nationhood as one
which must be negotiated and renegotiated from within, rather than
beyond, national borders. Providing fresh readings of texts such as
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the fifteenth-century Robin Hood
ballads and the Towneley plays, this book argues for the North's
vital contribution to processes of imagining nation in the Middle
Ages and shows that that regionalism is both contained within and
constitutive of its apparent opposite, nationalism.
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