TY - BOOK ID - 51682346 TI - Myth, memory and the middlebrow : Priestley, du Maurier and the symbolic form of Englishness PY - 2010 SN - 9780230241367 0230241360 PB - Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics, English, in literature. KW - Nationalism and literature KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - Priestley, J. B. KW - Du Maurier, Daphne, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - England KW - In literature. KW - National characteristics, English, in literature KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - Literature and nationalism KW - Literature KW - Browning, Daphne Du Maurier, KW - Dafuni Dumuli'ai, KW - Di︠u︡ Morʹe, Dafna, KW - Maurier, Daphne du, KW - 达夫妮・杜穆里埃, KW - Goldsmith, Peter, KW - Priestley, John Boynton, KW - Pristli, Dzhon Boĭnton, KW - Prisṭli, G'. B., KW - Пристли, Д. Б. KW - Пристли, Джон Бойнтон, KW - פריסטלי, ג'. ב. KW - פריסטלי, ג'ון בוינטון KW - Prīstlī, Jay. Bī., KW - Prīstlī, Jī. Bī., KW - پريستلى، جى. بى. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:51682346 AB - Globalization, devolution and the challenges of a postcolonial and multicultural society have fuelled the debate about national identity in Britain in recent years. Notions of individual and collective identity have revolved around a number of stereotypes of ̀Britishness' or ̀Englishness' which appear 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 described as a ̀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 --Book Jacket. ER -