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

• Autore: Melman Billie
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Disciplina: 942.0072
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - Great Britain - Historiography; History in art; History in literature; History in mass media
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Historiography; France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Historiography
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2006.
• 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: 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 1950s.
• Titolo autorizzato: The culture of history
• ISBN: 1-383-04413-9; 1-281-14565-3; 9786611145651; 0-19-153802-7; 1-4356-0926-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910806917103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.