Cricket, Fiction and Nation

Rod Edmond

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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Epigraphy
pp v-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-4

1 - The Rise and Fall of the Village Cricket Story
pp 5-26

2 - The Public School Cricket Story
pp 27-46

3 - The Cricket Murder Story
pp 47-72

4 - Cricket and Comedy
pp 73-88

5 - Cricket and Tragedy
pp 89-106

6 - Post-Colonial and Global Cricket Fiction
pp 107-142

7 - Endgame
pp 143-148

Bibliography
pp 149-152

Acknowledgements
pp 153-154

Index
pp 155-170

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