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CRICKET, LITERATURE AND CULTURE - SYMBOLISING THE NATION, DESTABILISING EMPIRE

CRICKET, LITERATURE AND CULTURE - SYMBOLISING THE NATION, DESTABILISING EMPIRE

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Traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid-1980s, examining newspapers, instructional books, fiction, poetry and histories.

8vo. 236pp. Dust-wrapper, lightly rubbed. Good condition.

Date
2009
Publisher
Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Author
Anthony BATEMAN

£40.00 (Code: 82263)

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