Cricket, Fiction and Nation

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, race, migration and the global post-colonial world.

List of contents

Introduction; 1-The Rise and Fall of the Village Cricket Story; 2-The Public School Cricket Story; 3-The Cricket Murder Story; 4-Cricket and Comedy; 5-Cricket and Tragedy; 6-Post-Colonial and Global Cricket Fiction; 7-Endgame; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

About the author

Rod Edmond is Emeritus Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History at the University of Kent. He has published books on Victorian literature, Pacific travelers, leprosy and empire, islands, migration, and the Kent coast.

Product details

• Authors: Rod Edmond, Edmond Rod
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9781839996450
• ISBN: 978-1-83999-645-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / World, Sport: general, Sociology: sport and leisure, General and world history, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Fiction-Related Items, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Fiction: literary and general non-genre