{"product_id":"priestleys-england-john-baxendale-9780719072871","title":"Priestley's England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003ePriestley'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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Baxendale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0719072875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780719072871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"John Baxendale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065049264383,"sku":"9780719072871","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_30ce40ca-c24e-417b-b55f-8c1c1dc33b16.jpg?v=1768672803","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/priestleys-england-john-baxendale-9780719072871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}