Overview
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
About this book
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.
Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
Table of contents (10 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Introduction: Englishness as a Symbolic Form
-
Front Matter
-
-
J. B. Priestley: Shaping Communities
-
Front Matter
-
-
Daphne du Maurier: (De-)Familiarizing the Nation
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Reviews
'Habermann's readings, depth and detail...are astute and admirably contextualized.' - Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies
About the author
INA HABERMANN is Professor of English at the University of Basel and Director of the Centre of Competence Cultural Topographies founded in 2009. She teaches English literature and culture since the Renaissance and is the author of a study on early modern drama and the law entitled Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England (2003).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow
Book Subtitle: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness
Authors: Ina Habermann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277496
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24136-7Published: 19 May 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27749-6Published: 19 May 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 242
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Social Theory, British and Irish Literature