Daylight on Saturday, by J.b. Priestley
Author: J. b Priestley
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Author: J. b Priestley
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Boynton Priestley
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Published: 1943
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Published: 1943
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Baxendale
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1847796443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPriestley’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 in ‘the nervous excitement, the frenzy, the underlying despair of our century’. It argues that Priestley has been unjustly neglected for too long: we have a great deal to learn both from this extraordinary, multi-faceted man, and from the English radical tradition he represented. This book will appeal to all those interested in the culture and politics of twentieth-century Britain, in the continuing debates over ‘Englishness’ to which Priestley made such a key contribution, and in the life and work of one of the most remarkable and popular writers of the past century.
Author: Roger Fagge
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1441104801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn intellectual biography, following the development of Priestley's thought from his engagement with social themes to his subsequent disillusion in the post-war period.
Author: Visiting Senior Fellow Department of Psychology Nicky Hayes
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780853237631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays brings together the latest historical research on cultural production and reception during the Second World War. It covers the way in which cultural provision was viewed by the labour movement and industry.
Author: Vincent Brome
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 568
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: I. Habermann
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-05-19
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0230277497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Juliette Pattinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1526106140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMen in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore how this group articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military masculinity. It considers the range of masculine identities circulating amongst civilian male workers during the war and investigates the extent to which reserved workers draw upon these identities when recalling their wartime selves. It argues that the Second World War was capable of challenging civilian masculinities, positioning the civilian man below that of the 'soldier hero' while, simultaneously, reinforcing them by bolstering the capacity to provide and to earn high wages, frequently in risky and dangerous work, all which were key markers of masculinity.