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Full Description
Cricket, Fiction and Nation traces the historic arc of fiction dealing with cricket from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century to its emergence in the early twentieth century as a form of serious literature, its subsequent decline into genre writing and its rejuvenation in the global world of the twenty-first century. The writers discussed include Mary Russell Mitford, Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, P.G. Wodehouse, James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, Dorothy L. Sayers, C. Day Lewis writing as Nicholas Blake, L.P. Hartley, Simon Raven, J.L. Carr, Mike Marqusee, Nancy Spain, Caryl Phillips, Romesh Gunesekera, Anthony Quinn and Shehan Karunatilaka. It also considers how cricket has featured in the TV series Inspector Morse and Midsomer Murders.
Contents
Introduction; 1-The Rise and Fall of the Village Cricket Story; 2-The Public School Cricket Story; 3-The Cricket Murder Story; 4-Cricket and Comedy; 5-Cricket and Tragedy; 6-Post-Colonial and Global Cricket Fiction; 7-Endgame; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index
