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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784856703321

Autore

Melman Billie

Titolo

The culture of history [[electronic resource] ] : English uses of the past, 1800-1953 / / Billie Melman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-383-04413-9

1-281-14565-3

9786611145651

0-19-153802-7

1-4356-0926-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Disciplina

942.0072

Soggetti

Popular culture - Great Britain - Historiography

History in art

History in literature

History in mass media

Great Britain Historiography

France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-354) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. THE FRENCH CONNECTION: HISTORY AND CULTURE AFTER THE REVOLUTION; PART II. HISTORY AS A DUNGEON: TUDOR REVIVALS AND URBAN CULTURE; PART III. ELIZABETHAN REVIVALS, CONSUMPTION, AND MASS DEMOCRACY IN THE MODERN CENTURY; PART IV. HISTORY AND GLAMOUR: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND MODERN LIVING, 1900-1940; PART V. NEW ELIZABETHANS? POST-WAR CULTURE AND FAILED HISTORIES; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers unexplored aspects of popular history, and unpicks notions of the uncosy past, a place of pleasurable horror and sensationalism, which survived into the 1950's. - ;In this original and widely researched



book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in