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...
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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. 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
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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
