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Echoing Greens
- How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination
Engelsk Hardback
Echoing Greens
- How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination
Engelsk Hardback

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The importance of cricket to the English imagination has been immortalised in the art and literature of a thousand years. It is a story that is known in part, but one that has never been explored in full. And it is lined with surprises, forgotten tales, unnoticed details - ranging from medieval manuscript illustrations, through a dazzling variety of visual art, poetry, fiction, and drama, to recent portraits of contemporary heroes.

Echoing Greens will explore the depth of the bond between cricket and the English imagination. For countless artists and writers across the centuries, the culture and aesthetics of cricket - white-clad players, the crack of bat on ball, booming appeals, admiring applause, figures running up to bowl, batsmen leaning, waiting, swinging the blade - have been as essential to the English landscape as the hills and meadows immortalised by Gainsborough, Constable and Turner. And in pursuing this journey, Echoing Greens will show that - beneath cosy patriotic dreams of 'English values' - a much wilder, more complex story exists. Alongside stories of heroic figures, noble values, and pastoral idylls, the literature and the art of cricket also tell of vice, violence, and scandal. In unveiling the true story behind these representations of the game, this book will also force us to reconsider the history of cricket itself.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781408719442
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1408719444
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 maj 2024
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
141mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 2024
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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