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

Author:: Bateman, Anthony, 1966-
Published:: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Physical Description:: viii, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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Contents:

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'?

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ISBN:

9780754665373 (hardback : alk. paper)
0754665372 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780754696995 (ebook)
0754696995 (ebook)

Collection:

Ronald A. Smith Sports History Book Collection.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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