Title Myth, memory and the middlebrow : Priestley, du Maurier and the symbolic form of Englishness / Ina Habermann

Published Basingstoke [U.K.] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Click on the following:
Springer Literature eBooks
Springer eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction: Englishness as a Symbolic Form; 1 Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation; 2 Myth: Ideologies, Symbolic Forms and the 'Mythical Present'; 3 Memory: Shaping the Present out of the Past; 4 Media: Challenging Modernism -- the 'Middlebrow' and Memodrama; Part II: J.B. Priestley: Shaping Communities; 5 Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne; 6 English Journeys; 7 Addressing the People; Part III: Daphne du Maurier: (De- )Familiarizing the Nation; 8 Dreamtime in Cornwall; 9 From Gothic to Memodrama Summary This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. Two case studies, focused on J.B. Priestley and Daphne du Maurier, explore crucial ways in which popular 'middlebrow' authors imagine and shape the nation, providing an innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-234) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989 fast Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984 fast Subject English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism National characteristics, English, in literature. Nationalism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century Group identity -- England -- History -- 20th century Literary theory -- English. Literary studies: general -- English. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Literature. English literature Group identity Literature National characteristics, English, in literature Nationalism and literature SUBJECT England -- In literature Subject England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230277496 0230277497 1282911074 9781282911079 9786612911071 6612911077

  Permalink