Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
Language: English
Published by Thames & Hudson, 2023
- Hardcover
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Seller: Don Kelly Books, London, United KingdomDon Kelly Books
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303pp. colour and b&w illustrations. The fore edge is a little stained.
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- Title
- Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
- Author
- Owens, Susan
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Some Edgewear
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0500024332
- ISBN 13
- 9780500024331
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England has long built its sense of self on visions of its past. What does it mean for medieval writers to summon King Arthur from the post-Roman fog; for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the medieval workshop and Julia Margaret Cameron to portray the Arthurian court with her Victorian camera; or for Yinka Shonibare in the final years of the twentieth century to visualize a Black Victorian dandy?
By exploring the imaginations of successive generations, this book reveals how diverse notions of the past have inspired literature, art, music, architecture and fashion. It shines a light on subjects from myths to mock-Tudor houses, Stonehenge to steampunk, and asks how – and why – the past continues so powerfully to shape the present. Not a history of England, but a history of those who have written, painted and dreamed it into being, Imagining England's Past offers a lively, erudite account of the making and manipulation of the days of old.
Praise for Imagining England's Past
'Susan Owens conjures our imagined past with such vivacity and lyricism that I can see the dawn mist rising over fabled fields and hear the tread of fictional histories on the worn stairs of yesteryear. Packed full of myths, stories, poems and paintings I found this book impossible to put down!'
Charlotte Mullins, broadcaster, art critic and author of A Little History of Art
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