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Author Melman, Billie.

Title The culture of history : English uses of the past, 1800-1953 / Billie Melman
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 363 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 1950s. - ;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 t
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-354) and index
Notes English
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Subject Popular culture -- Great Britain -- Historiography
History in art.
History in literature.
History in mass media.
histories (visual works)
HISTORY.
Historiography
History in art
History in literature
History in mass media
Popular culture -- Historiography
Amusement.
Beeldcultuur.
Massamedia.
Populaire cultuur.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Historiography
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography
Subject France
Great Britain
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittanniƫ en Noord-Ierland.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0191538027
9781435609266
1435609263
9780191538025
1281145653
9781281145659
9786611145651
6611145656