{"product_id":"singular-continuities-9780804734899","title":"Singular Continuities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores the appropriation of the past in modern British culture. Today, at the beginning of a new millennium, the mass media would have us believe that Britain is suffering an identity crisis. If the pundits are correct, we are witnessing a manipulation of British history at the hands of those keen to project a new national imageor in the language of commodification, to rebrand Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twelve essays in \u003ci\u003eSingular Continuities\u003c\/i\u003e take a different tack. They argue that to distinguish between the new and the traditional in modern English culture often draws a false dichotomy, that British-ness, in fact, has been the product of continuous creation throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors strongly suggest that tradition derives from constant reimagining, if not from calculated invention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuch reimagining has often assumed surprising forms. Thus, for example, at the end of Victoria''s reign, an enemy culturethat of the Boer farmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While each of these essays can be read individually, and a review summary cannot even begin to do justice to the richness of the themes and arguments that they contain, their collective impact is to provide a new level of understanding about the varieties and persistence of tradition and nostalgia in modern British history.\"—\u003ci\u003eAlbion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction George Behlmer and Fred Leventhal; Part I. The Politics of Nostalgia: 1. Land reform and the imagined past in nineteenth-century Britain Jamie Bronstein; 2. Reading radicalism\/reading resistance: transformations and accommodations in suffragist discourse, 1890-1907 Laura Mayhall; 3. The long nineteenth century of British conservatism, 1880-1970 Reba Soffer; 4. The 1939 royal visit to the United States Fred Leventhal; 5. Autobiography, subjectivity, and memory: change and continuity in the practices of working-class selfhood Chris Waters; 6. Nostalgia, the heritage industry, and the London antiques trade: selling the past in Thatcher's Britain Howard Malchow; Part II. Tradition and Modernity: 7. Identity, immigration, and the state: Irish immigrants and English settlement in London, 1790-1840 Patricia Seleski; 8. The first world war as indicator of continuity and change in modern British sport John Osbourne; 9. 'Character'-building: continuity in social work practice, 1870-1930 George Behlmer; 10. Recasting the nation: change and continuity in 'the higher journalism', May 1923 Stewart Weaver; 11. Image and Englishness: Walter Benjamin, Humphrey Jennings, and modernity Michael Saler; 12. Vanessa's garden Susan Bell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405532438871,"sku":"9780804734899","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804734899.jpg?v=1730492757","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/singular-continuities-9780804734899","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}