Cricket Fiction and Nation

<p>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.</p>