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UNINA9910825181103321 |
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Autore |
Bateman Anthony <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Cricket, literature and culture : symbolising the nation, destabilising empire / / Anthony Bateman |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate Pub., c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-57476-4 |
1-317-15805-9 |
1-317-15804-0 |
1-282-34430-7 |
9786612344305 |
0-7546-9699-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliogrraphical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 1980's, with an in-depth look at cricket during the interwar period and the sport's transmission throughout the British |
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empire. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, and poetry, Bateman elaborates how the long tradition of literary discourse produced cricket's cultural status and meaning. |
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