LEADER 03089nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910806917103321 005 20230828214427.0 010 $a1-383-04413-9 010 $a1-281-14565-3 010 $a9786611145651 010 $a0-19-153802-7 010 $a1-4356-0926-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000403404 035 $a(EBL)431118 035 $a(OCoLC)609831919 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000133748 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11158811 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133748 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10068682 035 $a(PQKB)11738840 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL431118 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10194780 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL114565 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC431118 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000403404 100 $a20060321d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe culture of history$b[electronic resource] $eEnglish uses of the past, 1800-1953 /$fBillie Melman 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (378 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-929688-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-354) and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements; 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 330 $aBillie 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 606 $aPopular culture$zGreat Britain$xHistoriography 606 $aHistory in art 606 $aHistory in literature 606 $aHistory in mass media 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistoriography 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799$xHistoriography 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistoriography. 615 0$aHistory in art. 615 0$aHistory in literature. 615 0$aHistory in mass media. 676 $a942.0072 700 $aMelman$b Billie$0550316 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806917103321 996 $aThe culture of history$94011127 997 $aUNINA