Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow - Priestley, Du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness

Zusatztext 'Habermann's readings! depth and detail...are astute and admirably contextualized.' - Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION: ENGLISHNESS AS A SYMBOLIC FORM  Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation Myth: Ideology, Symbolic Forms and the 'mythical present' Memory: Shaping the Present out of the Past Media: Challenging Modernism: the 'middlebrow' and Memodrama PART II: J.B. PRIESTLEY: SHAPING COMMUNITIES Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne English Journeys Addressing the People PART III: DAPHNE DU MAURIER: (DE-)FAMILIARIZING THE NATION English Dreamtime in Cornwall From Gothic to Memodrama The Skeleton in the Cupboard Notes Index

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Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION: ENGLISHNESS AS A SYMBOLIC FORM Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation Myth: Ideology, Symbolic Forms and the 'mythical present' Memory: Shaping the Present out of the Past Media: Challenging Modernism: the 'middlebrow' and Memodrama PART II: J.B. PRIESTLEY: SHAPING COMMUNITIES Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne English Journeys Addressing the People PART III: DAPHNE DU MAURIER: (DE-)FAMILIARIZING THE NATION English Dreamtime in Cornwall From Gothic to Memodrama The Skeleton in the Cupboard Notes Index

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'Habermann's readings, depth and detail...are astute and admirably contextualized.' - Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies

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• Authors: I Habermann, I. Habermann, Ina Habermann, Habermann Ina
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2010
• EAN: 9780230241367
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24136-7
• No. of pages: 251
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Society & culture: general, Media and Communication, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Social sciences—Philosophy, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, drama;Figuration;identity;memory;Nation