Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
ISBN:
9781787354081
,
1787354083
,
9781787354050
,
1787354059
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Pageants in Yorkshire before the First World War -- 3. A National Church Tells its Story: The English Church Pageant of 1909 -- 4. The Pomp of Obliteration: G. K. Chesterton and the Edwardian Pageant Revival -- 5. Historical Pageants, Citizenship and the Performance of Women's History before Second-Wave Feminism -- 6. Nobility, Duty and Courage: Propaganda and Inspiration in Interwar Women's and Girls' Pageants
Content:
7. Historical Pageants, Neo-Romanticism and the City in Interwar Britain -- 8. 'A Chorus of Greek Poignancy': Communism, Class and Pageantry in Interwar South Wales -- 9. The 'Quite Ordinary Man' at the Pageant: History, Community and Local Identity in the 1951 Festival of Britain -- 10. 'The Scots' Pageant': The Arbroath Abbey Pageants 1947-2005 -- 11. After the Show is Over ... Souvenirs and Mementos: The Material Culture of Historical Pageants -- 12. 'The Story of Us'? Kynren and the Uses of the Past -- 13. Afterword -- Index
Content:
Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of pageants in Britain, ranging from its Edwardian origins to the present day. The volume highlights pageants as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1787354067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781787354067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1787354075
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781787354074
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1787354067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781787354067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1787354075
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781787354074
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
