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Rule, nostalgia : a backwards history of Britain / Hannah Rose Woods.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Woods, Hannah Rose, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History.
- Great Britain.
- Nostalgia--Great Britain--History.
- Nostalgia.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 393 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : WH Allen, 2022.
- Summary:
- For hundreds of years, the British have mourned the loss of older national identities, and called for a revival of the 'good old days' - from Margaret Thatcher's desire for a return to 'Victorian values' in the 1980s, to William Blake's protest against the 'dark satanic mills' of the Industrial Revolution that were fast transforming England's green and pleasant land, to sixteenth-century observers looking back wistfully to a 'Merry England' before the upheavals of the Reformation. By the time we reach the 1500s, we find a country nostalgic for a vision of home that looks very different to our own. Beginning in the present, cultural historian Hannah Rose Woods travels backwards on an eye-opening tour through six centuries of Britain's perennial fixation with its own past, asking why nostalgia has been such an enduring and seductive emotion across hundreds of years of change.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-371) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 0753558734
- 9780753558737
- OCLC:
- 1264141470
- Publisher Number:
- 99991096609
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