Tudorism: historical imagination and the appropriation of the sixteenth century

In architecture, music and literature, in paintings, films and television series, in print and on the internet, the Tudors are a hugely popular commodity.This volume is the first to study this phenomenon in depth, assembling foremost scholars in multiple fields to examine why the Tudors still make such an impact. 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 societiesutilise 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 thereception of the ancient world in modern Western culture. Likewise, a growingbody 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 othercountries. Indeed, the Tudors supply many of the signature icons of Britishness and the British monarchy around the world. This innovative volume will openup a new area of study and set the scholarly agenda for many years to come. INDICE: Introduction Revisiting the Olden Time: Popular Tudorism in the Time of Victoria The Pleasures of Tudor Horror: Popular Histories, Modernity andSensationalism 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-726494-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 22/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés