03093nam 2200661 a 450 991045830480332120200520144314.01-281-14565-397866111456510-19-153802-71-4356-0926-3(CKB)1000000000403404(EBL)431118(OCoLC)609831919(SSID)ssj0000133748(PQKBManifestationID)11158811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133748(PQKBWorkID)10068682(PQKB)11738840(MiAaPQ)EBC431118(Au-PeEL)EBL431118(CaPaEBR)ebr10194780(CaONFJC)MIL114565(EXLCZ)99100000000040340420060321d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe culture of history[electronic resource] English uses of the past, 1800-1953 /Billie MelmanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (378 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-929688-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-354) and index.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; IndexBillie 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 inPopular cultureGreat BritainHistoriographyHistory in artHistory in literatureHistory in mass mediaGreat BritainHistoriographyFranceHistoryRevolution, 1789-1799HistoriographyElectronic books.Popular cultureHistoriography.History in art.History in literature.History in mass media.942.0072Melman Billie550316MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458304803321The culture of history2119103UNINA