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Myth, memory and the middlebrow : Priestley, du Maurier and the symbolic form of Englishness
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ISBN: 9780230241367 0230241360 Year: 2010 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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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.

Priestley's England : J.B. Priestley and English culture
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ISBN: 1781700664 1847791328 9781847791320 0719072867 0719072875 1847796443 Year: 2007 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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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

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