Author: E. W. Townson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
St. Albans & Its Pageant
Queen Boudica and Historical Culture in Britain
Author: Martha Vandrei
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192548697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica, exploring her presence in British historical discourse, from the early-modern rediscovery of the works of Tacitus to the first historical films of the early twentieth century. In doing so, the book seeks to demonstrate the continuity and persistence of historical ideas across time and throughout a variety of media. This focus on continuity leads into an examination of the nature of history as a cultural phenomenon and the implications this has for our own conceptions of history and its role in culture more generally. While providing contemporary contextual readings of Boudica's representations, Martha Vandrei also explores the unique nature of historical ideas as durable cultural phenomena, articulated by very different individuals over time, all of whom were nevertheless engaged in the creative process of making history. Thus this study presents a challenge to the axioms of cultural history, new historicism, and other mainstays of twentieth- and twenty-first- century historical scholarship. It shows how, long before professional historians sought to monopolise historical practice, audiences encountered visions of past ages created by antiquaries, playwrights, poets, novelists, and artists, all of which engaged with, articulated, and even defined the meaning of 'historical truth'. This book argues that these individual depictions, variable audience reactions, and the abiding notion of history as truth constitute the substance of historical culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192548697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Taking a long chronological view and a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary approach, this is an innovative and distinctive book. It is the definitive work on the posthumous reputation of the ever-popular warrior queen of the Iceni, Queen Boadicea/Boudica, exploring her presence in British historical discourse, from the early-modern rediscovery of the works of Tacitus to the first historical films of the early twentieth century. In doing so, the book seeks to demonstrate the continuity and persistence of historical ideas across time and throughout a variety of media. This focus on continuity leads into an examination of the nature of history as a cultural phenomenon and the implications this has for our own conceptions of history and its role in culture more generally. While providing contemporary contextual readings of Boudica's representations, Martha Vandrei also explores the unique nature of historical ideas as durable cultural phenomena, articulated by very different individuals over time, all of whom were nevertheless engaged in the creative process of making history. Thus this study presents a challenge to the axioms of cultural history, new historicism, and other mainstays of twentieth- and twenty-first- century historical scholarship. It shows how, long before professional historians sought to monopolise historical practice, audiences encountered visions of past ages created by antiquaries, playwrights, poets, novelists, and artists, all of which engaged with, articulated, and even defined the meaning of 'historical truth'. This book argues that these individual depictions, variable audience reactions, and the abiding notion of history as truth constitute the substance of historical culture.
PAST & PRESENT
English Pageantry
Author: Robert Withington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The St. Albans Pageant. July 15th to July 20th, 1907 ...
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Pageants in Great Britain and the United States
Author: Caroline Hill Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pageants
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Women in the Arts in the Belle Epoque
Author: Paul Fryer
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078646075X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This collection of new essays explores the role played by women practitioners in the arts during the period often referred to as the Belle Epoque, a turn of the century period in which the modern media (audio and film recording, broadcasting, etc.) began to become a reality. Exploring the careers and creative lives of both the famous (Sarah Bernhardt) and the less so (Pauline Townsend) across a remarkable range of artistic activity from composition through oratory to fine art and film directing, these essays attempt to reveal, in some cases for the first time, women's true impact on the arts at the turn of the 19th century.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 078646075X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
This collection of new essays explores the role played by women practitioners in the arts during the period often referred to as the Belle Epoque, a turn of the century period in which the modern media (audio and film recording, broadcasting, etc.) began to become a reality. Exploring the careers and creative lives of both the famous (Sarah Bernhardt) and the less so (Pauline Townsend) across a remarkable range of artistic activity from composition through oratory to fine art and film directing, these essays attempt to reveal, in some cases for the first time, women's true impact on the arts at the turn of the 19th century.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Author: New York Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-1945.