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Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow - Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness (Hardcover)
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Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow - Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness (Hardcover)
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Globalisation, 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.
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