Cricket, Literature and Culture - Symbolising The Nation, Destabilising Empire

anthony Bateman 2009
Contents
List of Figures vii
Permissions ix
Acknowledgements xi
introduction: Writing the Cricket Field 1
1 ‘more mighty than the Bat, the Pen […]’: Culture, hegemony and
the Literaturisation of Cricket 15
2 ‘england over’?: Cricket and Literature in the inter-War years 55
3 ‘Guilty, m’lud, to fiction […]’: Neville Cardus and Cultural Crisis 95
4 Cricket, Literature and empire 1850–1939 121
5 ‘From Far it Look Like Politics’: C.L.r. James and the Canon 157
6 ‘the Play is a Poem’? 197
Bibliography 205
Index 229

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