• Introduction-- Art and its Publics, c. 1800-- The Idea of National Opera around 1800-- The Invention of German Music, c. 1800-- Playing with the Nation: Napoleon and the Culture of Nationalism-- Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, Nationalism-- Art in a Cool Climate: The Cultural Policy of the British State in European Context, c.
• 1780- c. 1850-- The Invention of National Languages-- The Debates about Universal History and National History around
• 1800: A Problem-oriented Historical Attempt-- Views of the Past in Irish Vernacular Literature, 1650-1850.
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Two of the most popular, innovative and controversial fields of historical study are cultural history and the history of nationalism. This volume brings these two areas together by addressing a central concern of recent research on the cultural history of Europe: the transition from the cosmopolitan culture of the Enlightenment to the self-consciously national cultures of the nineteenth century. Eleven lively and accessible chapters cover the public sphere, music, the visual arts, political culture, literature, the role of the state, and national languages. Among the many topics discussed are the decline in the degree and importance of patronage by the churches and the nobility; the corresponding expansion in the role played by the anonymous public and the market; the decline of international languages in favour of national vernaculars; the importance of the 'other' in determining a sense of national identity; and the growing appreciation by the state of the significance of the 'fine arts' as being conducive to social harmony, economic prosperity, and political stability.
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• Introduction
• Revisiting the Olden Time: Popular Tudorism in the Time of Victoria
• The Pleasures of Tudor Horror: Popular Histories, Modernity and Sensationalism in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Tudorism in English Music, 1837-1953
• 'A Great National Heritage': The Early Twentieth-century Tudor Church Music Revival
• Through Several Glasses Darkly: Historical and Sectarian Perceptions of the Tudor Church
• The Tudors Reinvented: The Regency and the Sixteenth Century
• Twentieth-century Tudor Design in Britain: An Ideological Battleground
• Architecture: The Tudoresque Diaspora
• The Tudors Viewed by French Romantic Artists
• Myth and Memory in Representations of Henry VIII, 1509-2009
• 'A Great Guy with His Chopper'?:The Sex Life of Henry VIII on Screen and in the Flesh
• Slashing History: The Tudors
• The Tudors: Famous for Five Centuries.
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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.
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