Cricket, Fiction and Nation
Cricket, Fiction and Nation traces the historic arc of fiction dealing with cricket from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to its emergence in the early twentieth century as a form of serious literature, its subsequent decline into genre writing and its rejuvenation in the global world...
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| Natura: | Livre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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London :
Anthem Press
2025.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Edition sous un autre format: | • Cricket, Fiction and Nation, Rod Edmond, London, Anthem Press, 2025, 1 vol. (171 p.), 978-18-3999-645-0 |
| Riassunto: | Cricket, Fiction and Nation traces the historic arc of fiction dealing with cricket from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to its emergence in the early twentieth century as a form of serious literature, its subsequent decline into genre writing and its rejuvenation in the global world of the twenty-first century. The writers discussed include Mary Russell Mitford, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, P.G. Wodehouse, James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy L. Sayers, C. Day Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake, L.P. Hartley, Simon Raven, J.L. Carr, Mike Marqusee, Nancy Spain, Caryl Phillips, Romesh Gunesekera, Anthony Quinn and Shehan Karunatilaka. It also considers how cricket has featured in the TV series Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Couverture. https://static2.cyberlibris.com/books_upload/300pix/9781839996481.jpg Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) corpus STAPS |
| ISBN: | 9781839996481 |
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