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Meanings of modernity :Britain from the late-Victorian era to World War II
- 其他作者: Rieger, Bernhard. , Daunton, M. J.
- 出版: Oxford : Berg 2001.
- 稽核項: x, 250 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
- 標題: Great Britain Civilization -- 20th century. , Great Britain Civilization -- 19th century. , Modernism (Aesthetics) Great Britain. , Arts, Modern 20th century. , Civilization , Arts, Modern , Great Britain , Modernism (Aesthetics)
- ISBN: 1859734022 , 9781859734025
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Travelling in the Lady Guides' London : consumption, modernity, and the fin-de-siecle metropolis / Erika D. Rappaport -- Advertising, the modernist aesthetic of the marketplace? The cultural relationship between the tobacco manufacturer and the "mass" of consumers in Britain, 1870-1940 / Matthew Hilton -- Occultism and the "modern" self in fin-de-siecle Britain / Alex Owen -- Psychology and the "consciousness of modernity" in early twentieth-century Britain / Mathew Thomson -- The consciousness of modernity? Liberalism and the English "national character," 1870-1940 / Peter Mandler --Envisioning the future : British and German reactions to the Paris World Fair in 1900 / Bernhard Rieger -- Modernity, community and history : narratives of innovation in the British coal industry / Michael Dintenfass -- Modern mountains : the performative consciousness of modernity in Britain, 1870-1940 / Peter H. Hansen -- Modernity and trusteeship : tensions of empire in Britain betweeen the wars / Susan Pedersen -- From somebodies to nobodies : Britons returning home from India / Elizabeth Buettner.
- 系統號: 005219822
- 資料類型: 圖書
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While conceptions of the 'modern' have been intensively and fruitfully studied from a variety of perspectives in the context of continental European history, scholars of Britain have hardly addressed the history of the first industrial nation and the world's leading colonial power in this register, despite its enormous cultural influence.In examining British conceptions and expressions of modernity --from Victorian debates about 'national character' to breathtaking exhibitions of artefacts such as the 'moving pavement' that would revolutionize the future appearance of cities, to debates about the impact of new forms of production and consumption, mass communication and travel -- this book fills the gap.Is it true, as Virginia Woolf observed upon seeing the first London exhibition of work by Manet and the Post-Impressionists that 'On or about December 1910 human character changed'? Do men and women experience modernity in the same way? How did contemporaries make sense of the changing social worlds they inhabited? How were conflicting visions of modernity, technology and social change expressed in: advertisements and branding; art, architecture and design; business and commerce; mysticism and mountaineering; new approaches to psychology and the self; and colonial discourse?These wide-ranging issues are addressed by internationally acclaimed experts in the history of science, intellectual history, gender studies, consumption and empire studies. The result is a multifaceted and innovative foray into British cultural history.
來源: Google Book
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