The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953
Book Details
Author(s)
Melman, Billie
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN / ASIN
019929688X
ISBN-13
9780199296880
Category
History
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
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.
