Publisher's notice
Information about this book was provided by its publisher in 2011. The description given is not an independent review. All details are subject to change, especially pricing. Please use the contact links at the top of this page to notify any innacuracy.
Tatiana C. String and Marcus Bull, eds.
Tudorism: Historical Imagination and the Appropriation of the Sixteenth Century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press/British Academy.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy 170.
Publication due: November 2011.
Size: 234x156mm.
Page count: 350pp.
Illustrations: 52.
Publisher's recommended price
Hardback ISBN 9780197264942, £70.00
Description:
The first in-depth and wide-ranging academic investigation of the reception of the Tudor period in the modern world, this volume includes studies by many of the leading scholars in their fields, and considers the modern appropriation of the Tudors in art, music, architecture, design, religion, public history, social history, film and television, and internet networking sites. A noteworthy scholarly trend in recent decades has been a growing interest in the ways in which societies utilise the past as a cultural resource, as a repertoire of quotable designs and styles, as a vantage point from which to frame political and social critiques, as a source of identities, and as a refuge from present-day anxieties. There has been a great deal of academic interest, for example, in the reception of the ancient world in modern Western culture. Likewise, a growing body of scholarship is devoted to the study of medievalism, the images and ideas that attach to the Middle Ages in the post-medieval imaginary. It is striking that, in stark contrast, very little attention has been paid to the cultural appropriation of the Tudor age, despite the pronounced and enduring popularity of the Tudors within the popular historical consciousness, not only in Britain but also in many other countries. Indeed, the Tudors supply many of the signature icons of Britishness and the British monarchy around the world. This innovative volume will open up a new area of study and set the scholarly agenda for many years to come.
Readership: Academics and students of Tudor history and reception studies.
Contents:
Tatiana C. String and Marcus Bull: Introduction
Peter Mandler: Revisiting the Olden Time: Popular Tudorism in the Time of Victoria
Billie Melman: The Pleasures of Tudor Horror: Popular Histories, Modernity and Sensationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century
Stephen Banfield: Tudorism in English Music, 1837-1953
Suzanne Cole: 'A Great National Heritage': The Early Twentieth-century Tudor Church Music Revival
Patrick Collinson: Through Several Glasses Darkly: Historical and Sectarian Perceptions of the Tudor Church
Steven Parissien: The Tudors Reinvented: The Regency and the Sixteenth Century
Jonathan M. Woodham: Twentieth-century Tudor Design in Britain: An Ideological Battleground
Andrew Ballantyne and Andrew Law: Architecture: The Tudoresque Diaspora
Stephen Bann: The Tudors Viewed by French Romantic Artists
Tatiana C. String: Myth and Memory in Representations of Henry VIII, 1509-2009
Greg Walker: 'A Great Guy with His Chopper'?:The Sex Life of Henry VIII on Screen and in the Flesh
Jerome de Groot: Slashing History: The Tudors
David Starkey: The Tudors: Famous for Five Centuries