Theatres of Memory, Volume 1In this widely acclaimed book, Raphael Samuel takes issue with the claim that our obsession with heritage is a symptom of national decay. He argues rather that we live in an expanding historical culture, one which is newly alert to the evidence of the visual and which is altogether more pluralist than earlier versions of the national past. |
Contents
Retrofitting | 51 |
Retrochic | 83 |
The Return to Brick | 119 |
Resurrectionism | 139 |
Living History | 169 |
Semantics | 205 |
Genealogies | 227 |
Sociology | 242 |
Politics | 288 |
The Eye of History | 315 |
The Discovery of Old Photographs | 337 |
Dreamscapes | 350 |
Scopophilia | 364 |
The Elephant Man | 381 |
Docklands Dickens | 401 |
Hybrids | 429 |
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