Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow Priestley, du

This study explores Englishness as a 'symbolic form' from the 1920s to the 1940s. 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 an innovative approach to literary negotiations of cultural identity.

INA HABERMANN is Professor of English at the University of Basel and Director of the Centre of Competence Cultural Topographies founded in 2009. She teaches English literature and culture since the Renaissance and is the author of a study on early modern drama and the law entitled Staging Slander and Gender in Early Modern England (2003).

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: Englishness as a Symbolic Form	p. 1
Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation	p. 3
Myth: Ideologies, Symbolic Forms and the 'Mythical Present'	p. 9
Memory: Shaping the Present out of the Past	p. 26
Media: Challenging Modernism - the 'Middlebrow' and Memodrama	p. 31
J. B. Priestley: Shaping Communities	p. 43
Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne	p. 45
The Good Companions	p. 47
They Walk in the City	p. 53
Faraway	p. 56
English Journeys	p. 61
H. V. Morton	p. 61
J. B. Priestley	p. 80
George Orwell	p. 95
Addressing the People	p. 105
The pamphleteer	p. 105
The broadcaster	p. 113
The storyteller	p. 126
Daphne du Maurier: (De-)Familiarizing the Nation	p. 147
Dreamtime in Cornwall	p. 149
The Loving Spirit	p. 149
Frenchman's Creek	p. 161
From Gothic to Memodrama	p. 170
Jamaica Inn	p. 170
Rebecca	p. 177
The Skeleton in the Cupboard	p. 192
The public and private faces of war	p. 192
Hungry Hill	p. 199
The King's General	p. 204
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 235
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Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness

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