TY - BOOK ID - 78491921 TI - Priestley's England : J.B. Priestley and English culture PY - 2007 SN - 1781700664 1847791328 9781847791320 0719072867 0719072875 1847796443 PB - Manchester : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Literature. KW - Intellectual life. KW - English literature. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - English literature KW - Criticism KW - Evaluation of literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Literature KW - Rhetoric KW - Aesthetics KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Cultural life KW - Culture KW - Belles-lettres KW - Western literature (Western countries) KW - World literature KW - Philology KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. KW - History and criticism. KW - Technique KW - Evaluation KW - Priestley, J. B. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Great Britain. KW - Great Britain KW - In literature. KW - Intellectual life 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. KW - 1900 - 1999 KW - Admass. KW - CND. KW - Cold War. KW - English Journey. KW - Englishness. KW - J. B. Priestley. KW - tradition. KW - twentieth-century Britain. KW - wartime broadcasts. KW - welfare state. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78491921 AB - Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics. From his scathing analysis of a slump-stricken nation in the best-selling English Journey, to his popular wartime broadcasts which paved the way to 1945 and the welfare state, his post-war critique of 'Admass' and the Cold War (he was a co-founder of CND), and his continual engagement with the question of 'En ER -