Frontmatter -- 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's 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