Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow

Part I. Introduction: Englishness as a Symbolic Form

1. Identity: Englishness and the Reconfiguration of the Nation
Ina Habermann

2. Myth: Ideologies, Symbolic Forms and the ‘Mythical Present’
Ina Habermann

3. Memory: Shaping the Present out of the Past
Ina Habermann

4. Media: Challenging Modernism — the ‘Middlebrow’ and Memodrama
Ina Habermann

Part II. J. B. Priestley: Shaping Communities

5. Steak-and-Kidney Pie in the Land of Cockaigne
Ina Habermann

6. English Journeys
Ina Habermann

7. Addressing the People
Ina Habermann

Part III. Daphne du Maurier: (De-)Familiarizing the Nation

8. Dreamtime in Cornwall
Ina Habermann

9. From Gothic to Memodrama
Ina Habermann

10. The Skeleton in the Cupboard
Ina Habermann

Keywords: Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Social Theory, British and Irish Literature