Cricket, literature and culture : symbolising the nation, destabilising empire /
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'...
| Основен автор: | Bateman, Anthony, 1966- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub.,
℗♭2009.
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| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Cricket, literature and culture. |
Съдържание:
- 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.