02960nam 2200721 a 450 991080691710332120200520144314.01-383-04413-91-281-14565-397866111456510-19-153802-71-4356-0926-310.1093/oso/9780199296880.001.0001(CKB)1000000000403404(EBL)431118(OCoLC)609831919(SSID)ssj0000133748(PQKBManifestationID)11158811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133748(PQKBWorkID)10068682(PQKB)11738840(Au-PeEL)EBL431118(CaPaEBR)ebr10194780(CaONFJC)MIL114565(MiAaPQ)EBC431118(OCoLC)1406781715(StDuBDS)9781383044133(EXLCZ)99100000000040340420060321d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe culture of history English uses of the past, 1800-1953 /Billie MelmanOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (378 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2006.0-19-929688-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; IndexMelman 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 1950s.Oxford scholarship online.Popular cultureGreat BritainHistoriographyHistory in artHistory in literatureHistory in mass mediaGreat BritainHistoriographyFranceHistoryRevolution, 1789-1799HistoriographyPopular cultureHistoriography.History in art.History in literature.History in mass media.942.0072Melman Billie550316MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806917103321The culture of history4011127UNINA