Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow: Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness
Description
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.
Keywords
PRIESTLEY, J. B. (JOHN BOYNTON), 1894-1984DU MAURIER, DAPHNE, 1907-1989ENGLISH LITERATURE_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURYNATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS IN LITERATUREGROUP IDENTITYENGLAND_IN LITERATURE
2010Book
Author(s)Ina Habermann
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230241367
LanguageEnglish
