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Priestley´S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture
John Baxendale
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Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics. The book explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the themes which preoccupied Priestley throughout his life: competing versions of Englishness; tradition, modernity, and the decline of industrial England; 'Americanisation', mass culture and 'Admass'; cultural values and 'broadbrow' culture; consumerism and the decay of the public sphere; the loss of spirituality and community ... Read more
Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics. The book explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the themes which preoccupied Priestley throughout his life: competing versions of Englishness; tradition, modernity, and the decline of industrial England; 'Americanisation', mass culture and 'Admass'; cultural values and 'broadbrow' culture; consumerism and the decay of the public sphere; the loss of spirituality and community ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719072871
SKU
V9780719072871
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About John Baxendale
John Baxendale is Visiting Fellow in History at Sheffield Hallam University -- .
Reviews for Priestley´S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture
'I have nothing but praise for this book. I agree with almost every word of it, but I like to think that even those who will disagree with it - who may feel it is too generous to Priestley (especially the later, more embittered Priestley), or to interwar mass culture, or to his relationship with his audiences - will appreciate ... Read more