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Myth, memory and the middlebrow[electronic resource] :Priestley,du Maurier and the symbolic form of Englishness /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
杜威分類號:	820.9/355
書名/作者:	Myth, memory and the middlebrow : Priestley,du Maurier and the symbolic form of Englishness // Ina Habermann.
作者:	Habermann, Ina,
出版者:	Basingstoke [U.K.] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
面頁冊數:	ix, 242 p.
標題:	English literature - History and criticism. - 20th century
標題:	National characteristics, English, in literature.
標題:	Nationalism and literature - History - 20th century. - England
標題:	Group identity - History - 20th century. - England
標題:	England - Sources. - Race relations - 16th century
ISBN:	9780230277496
ISBN:	0230277497
書目註:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.
內容註:	Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation -- Myth:Ideology, Symbolic Forms and the 'mythical present' -- Memory: Shapingthe Present out of the Past -- Media: Challenging Modernism: the 'middlebrow' and Memodrama -- Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne -- English Journeys -- Addressing the People -- English Dreamtime in Cornwall -- From Gothic to Memodrama -- The Skeleton in the Cupboard.
摘要、提要註:	Globalisation, devolution and the challenges of a postcolonial and multicultural society havefuelled the debate about national identity inBritain in recent years. Notions of individual and collective identityhave revolved around a number of stereotypes of 'Britishness' or 'Englishness' whichappear ever more incongruous. This study suggests that these debates still draw on discourses of Englishness which were shaped in the interwar period and amplified in Second World War propaganda. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Englishness as a form of collective and cultural identity can be describedasa 'symbolic form', comprising specific notions of the people and their relationship to the country,most powerfully visualized in landscapes embodying a 'mythical present'. 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 a fresh and innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity.
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Myth, memory and the middlebrow[electronic resource] :Priestley,du Maurier and the symbolic form of Englishness /
Habermann, Ina,1965-

Myth, memory and the middlebrowPriestley,du Maurier and the symbolic form of Englishness /[electronic resource] :Ina Habermann. - Basingstoke [U.K.] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - ix, 242 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.

Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation -- Myth:Ideology, Symbolic Forms and the 'mythical present' -- Memory: Shapingthe Present out of the Past -- Media: Challenging Modernism: the 'middlebrow' and Memodrama -- Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne -- English Journeys -- Addressing the People -- English Dreamtime in Cornwall -- From Gothic to Memodrama -- The Skeleton in the Cupboard.

Globalisation, devolution and the challenges of a postcolonial and multicultural society havefuelled the debate about national identity inBritain in recent years. Notions of individual and collective identityhave revolved around a number of stereotypes of 'Britishness' or 'Englishness' whichappear ever more incongruous. This study suggests that these debates still draw on discourses of Englishness which were shaped in the interwar period and amplified in Second World War propaganda. From the 1920s to the 1940s, Englishness as a form of collective and cultural identity can be describedasa 'symbolic form', comprising specific notions of the people and their relationship to the country,most powerfully visualized in landscapes embodying a 'mythical present'. 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 a fresh and innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230277496Subjects--Personal Names:

376044
Priestley, J. B.
1894-1984--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

370856
English literature
--History and criticism.--20th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

370573
England
--Race relations--16th century--Sources.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

336502
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR478.N37 / H33 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/355

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