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