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The culture of history : English uses of the past, 1800-1953 / Billie Melman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melman, Billie, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Great Britain--Historiography.
- Popular culture.
- History in art.
- History in literature.
- History in mass media.
- Great Britain--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Historiography.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-354) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04413-9
- 1-281-14565-3
- 9786611145651
- 0-19-153802-7
- 1-4356-0926-3
- OCLC:
- 609831919
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