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Singular continuities : tradition, nostalgia, and identity in modern British culture / edited by George K. Behlmer and Fred M. Leventhal.
Van Pelt Library DA566.4 .S474 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nostalgia.
- Group identity.
- Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Civilization.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- National characteristics, British.
- Popular culture--Great Britain.
- Popular culture.
- Group identity--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Civilization.
- Nostalgia--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 277 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This volume explores the appropriation of the past in modern British culture. The twelve essays argue that to distinguish between " the new" and " the traditional" today often draws a false dichotomy. It argues that Britishness, in fact, has been the product of continuous creation throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Contents:
- Identity, Immigration, and the State: Irish Immigrants and English Settlement in London, 1790-1840 / Patty Seleski 11
- Rethinking the "Readmission": Anglo-Jewish History and the Immigration Crisis / Jamie Bronstein 28
- The Pro-Boers: War, Empire, and the Uses of Nostalgia in Turn-of-the-Century England / Stewart Weaver 43
- Character Building and the English Family: Continuities in Social Casework, ca. 1870-1930 / George K. Behlmer 58
- The Making of a Suffragette: The Uses of Reading and the Legacy of Radicalism, 1890-1918 / Laura E. Nym Mayhall 75
- Continuity in British Sport: The Experience of the First World War / John Morton Osborne 89
- Vanessa's Garden / Susan Groag Bell 103
- Whigs and Surrealists: The "Subtle Links" of Humphrey Jennings's Pandaemonium / Michael Saler 123
- The Long Nineteenth Century of Conservative Thought / Reba N. Soffer 143
- Essential Democracy: The 1939 Royal Visit to the United States / Fred M. Leventhal 163
- Autobiography, Nostalgia, and the Changing Practices of Working-Class Selfhood / Chris Waters 178
- Nostalgia, "Heritage," and the London Antiques Trade: Selling the Past in Thatcher's Britain / Howard L. Malchow 196.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-262) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804734895
- OCLC:
- 43864432
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