Cricket, Fiction and Nation - Paperback

by Rod Edmond (Author)

Cricket, Fiction and Nation examines how cricket has been used by fiction writers from the early nineteenth century to the present day to explore matters such as national identity, class, sexuality, murder, suicide, obsession, empire, race, migration and the global post-colonial world.

Author Biography

Rod Edmond is Emeritus Professor of Modern Literature and Cultural History at the University of Kent. He has published books on Victorian literature, Pacific travelers, leprosy and empire, islands, migration, and the Kent coast.