Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness

Title:

ISBN:

9780230277496

Personal Author:

Habermann, I. author.

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Publication Information New:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description:

IX, 242 p. online resource.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

Literature -- Philosophy.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Literature, Modern -- 20th century.

Communication.

Social sciences -- Philosophy.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Twentieth-Century Literature.

Media and Communication.

Cultural Studies.

Social Theory.