03350nam 2200697Ia 450 991045647550332120200520144314.01-317-15805-91-317-15804-01-282-34430-797866123443050-7546-9699-5(CKB)2550000000003602(EBL)476337(OCoLC)498504790(SSID)ssj0000292981(PQKBManifestationID)12098948(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292981(PQKBWorkID)10270236(PQKB)11388180(MiAaPQ)EBC476337(Au-PeEL)EBL476337(CaPaEBR)ebr10343265(CaONFJC)MIL922578(EXLCZ)99255000000000360220090513d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrCricket, literature and culture[electronic resource] symbolising the nation, destabilising empire /Anthony BatemanFarnham, Surrey, England ;Burlington, VT Ashgate Pub.c20091 online resource (249 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7546-6537-2 Includes bibliogrraphical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 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.English literature20th centuryHistory and criticismSports in literatureEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismCricket in literatureNational characteristics, British, in literatureCommonwealth literature (English)History and criticismElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Sports in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Cricket in literature.National characteristics, British, in literature.Commonwealth literature (English)History and criticism.820.9/0091Bateman Anthony1966-917639MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456475503321Cricket, literature and culture2057487UNINA