The culture of history : English uses of the past 1800-1953
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.
History
XII, 363 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780199296880, 019929688X
238802491
Part I - The French Connection: History and Culture After the Revolution ; 1. History as a Chamber of Horrors: the French Revolution in 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 ; 5. Lady Jane: Torture, Gender and the Re-Invention of the Tudors ; Part III- Elizabethan Revivals, Consumption and Mass Democracy in the Modern Century ; 6. Buy Tudor: The Historical Film as a Mass Commodity ; 7. The Queen's Two Bodies; the King's Body: History, Monarchy and Stardom, 1933-53 ; 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? Postwar Culture and Failed Histories ; 9. Gloriana 1953: Failed Evocations of the Past ; Conclusion ; Bibliography