LEADER 03344nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910825181103321 005 20240505164726.0 010 $a1-315-57476-4 010 $a1-317-15805-9 010 $a1-317-15804-0 010 $a1-282-34430-7 010 $a9786612344305 010 $a0-7546-9699-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000003602 035 $a(EBL)476337 035 $a(OCoLC)498504790 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292981 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12098948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292981 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10270236 035 $a(PQKB)11388180 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476337 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10343265 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL922578 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000003602 100 $a20090513d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCricket, literature and culture $esymbolising the nation, destabilising empire /$fAnthony Bateman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT $cAshgate Pub.$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-6537-2 320 $aIncludes bibliogrraphical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSports in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCricket in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, British, in literature 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSports in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCricket in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, British, in literature. 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/0091 700 $aBateman$b Anthony$f1966-$01671709 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825181103321 996 $aCricket, literature and culture$94034487 997 $aUNINA