Investigates how dialect variation in the North of England is represented in writing.

• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Introduction: What Is Dialect Writing? Where Is the North of England?
• 2 Black Country Dialect Literature and What It Can Tell Us about Black Country Dialect
• 3 Dialect and the Construction of Identity in the Ego-documents of Thomas Bewick
• 4 Nottingham: City of Literature - Dialect Literature and Literary Dialect
• 5 Enregistering Dialect Representation in Staffordshire Potteries’ Cartoons
• 6 Russian Dolls and Dialect Literature: The Enregisterment of Nineteenth-Century ‘Yorkshire’ Dialects
• 7 Representing the Language of Liverpool; or, the (Im)possibility of Dialect Writing
• 8 Metaphor and Indexicality in The Pitman’s Pay: The Ambivalence of Dialect
• 9 ‘Did She Say Dinner, Betsey, at This Taam o’Day?’: Representing Yorkshire Voices and Characters in Novels 1800–1836
• 10 Which Phonological Features Get Represented in Dialect Writing? Answers and Questions from Three Types of Liverpool English Texts
• 11 Phonological Analysis of Early-Nineteenth-Century Tyneside Dialect Literature: Thomas Wilson’s The Pitman Pay
• 12 The Graphical Representation of Phonological Dialect Features of the North of England on Social Media
• 13 The Bolton/Worktown Corpus: A Case of Accidental Dialectology?
• 14 Automatic Analysis of Dialect Literature: Advantages and Challenges
• Index