Cricket, Literature and Culture : Symbolising the Nation, Destabilising Empire (Hardcover)

Chapter 1 IntroductionWriting the Cricket Field; Chapter 1a 'More Mighty Than the Bat, the Pen, ...': Culture, Hegemony and the Literaturisation of Cricket; Chapter 2 'England Over'?: Cricket and Literature in the Inter-War Years; Chapter 3 : Neville Cardus and Cultural Crisis; Chapter 4 Cricket, Literature and Empire 1850'“1939; Chapter 5 'From Far it Look Like Politics': C.L.R. James and the Canon; Chapter 6 'The Play is a Poem'?;