The culture of history: English uses of the past, 1800-1953

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Number of pages363
ISBN (Electronic)9781383044133, 1383044139
ISBN (Print)0191538027, 1281145653, 1435609263, 9786611145651, 9780199296880
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

Publication series

NameOxford scholarship online
PublisherOxford University Press

Keywords

  • History in art
  • History in literature
  • History in mass media
  • Popular culture -- Great Britain -- Historiography
  • France -- History -- Revolution
  • 1789-1799 -- Historiography
  • Great Britain -- Historiography

ULI Keywords

  • uli
  • History in art
  • History in literature
  • History in mass media
  • Popular culture -- Great Britain -- Historiography
  • France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Historiography
  • Great Britain -- Historiography

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