| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 1980s, 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Sports in literature.
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Sports in literature. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Cricket in literature.
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Cricket in literature. |
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National characteristics, British, in literature.
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National characteristics, British, in literature. |
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Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism.
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Commonwealth literature (English) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bateman, Anthony, 1966- Cricket, literature and culture. Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2009 9780754665373 (DLC) 2009019702 (OCoLC)321047194 |
| ISBN |
9780754696995 (electronic book) |
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0754696995 (electronic book) |
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0754665372 (hardback) |
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9780754665373 (hardback) |
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1282344307 |
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9781282344303 |
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9780754665373 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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