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

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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 survi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Melman, Billie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Temas:
1789-1799
Popular culture > Great Britain > Historiography.
History in art.
History in literature.
History in mass media.
Histoire dans l'art.
Histoire dans la littérature.
Histoire dans les médias.
histories (visual works)
HISTORY.
Historiography
History in art
History in literature
History in mass media
Popular culture > Historiography
Amusement.
Beeldcultuur.
Massamedia.
Populaire cultuur.
Great Britain > Historiography.
France > History > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Historiography.
France
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I. THE FRENCH CONNECTION: HISTORY AND CULTURE AFTER THE REVOLUTION; 1. History as a Chamber of Horrors: The French Revolution at Madame Tussaud's; 2. History as a Panorama: Spectacle and the People in Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution; 3. The Past as an Urban Place: Mid-Victorian Images of Revolution and Governance; PART II. HISTORY AS A DUNGEON: TUDOR REVIVALS AND URBAN CULTURE; 4. Who Owns the Tower of London? The Production and Consumptions of a Historical Monument, 1840-1940.
  • 5. Lady Jane: Torture, Gender, and the Reinvention of the TudorsPART III. ELIZABETHAN REVIVALS, CONSUMPTION, AND MASS DEMOCRACY IN THE MODERN CENTURY; 6. Buy Tudor: The Historical Film and History as a Mass Commodity; 7. The Queen's Two Bodies and the King's Body: History, Monarchy, and Stardom, 1933-1953; PART IV. HISTORY AND GLAMOUR: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND MODERN LIVING, 1900-1940; 8. The Revolution, Aristocrats, and the People: The Returns of the Scarlet Pimpernel, 1900-1935; PART V. NEW ELIZABETHANS? POST-WAR CULTURE AND FAILED HISTORIES; 9. Gloriana 1953: Failed Evocations of the Past.
  • ConclusionBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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