Cricket, literature and culture : symbolising the nation, destabilising empire

Cricket, literature and culture : symbolising the nation, destabilising empire / Anthony Bateman.

In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s, with an in-depth look at cricket during the interwar period and the sport'...

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Main Author: Bateman, Anthony, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2009.
Subjects:
1800-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Sports in literature.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Cricket in literature.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Commonwealth literature (English) > History and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Commonwealth literature (English)
Cricket in literature
English literature
National characteristics, British, in literature
Sports in literature
Electronic books.
dissertations.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Permissions; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing the Cricket Field; 1 'More Mighty Than the Bat, the Pen ... ': Culture, Hegemony and the Literaturisation of Cricket; 2 'England Over'?: Cricket and Literature in the Inter-War Years; 3 'Guilty, m'lud, to fiction ... ' : Neville Cardus and Cultural Crisis; 4 Cricket, Literature and Empire 1850-1939; 5 'From Far it Look Like Politics': C.L.R. James and the Canon; 6 'The Play is a Poem'?; Bibliography; Index.

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