Name: Island Stories: Unraveling Britain (en Inglés)
Price: 19.00 EUR
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Author: Raphael Samuel
ISBN: 9781859841907

portada Island Stories: Unraveling Britain (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Verso

Autor

Raphael Samuel

Año

1999

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

416

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1859841902

ISBN13

9781859841907

N° edición

Categorías

Reino unido
Historia de europa

Island Stories: Unraveling Britain (en Inglés)

Raphael Samuel (Autor) · Verso · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Island Stories: Unraveling Britain (en Inglés)"

A luminous sequel to the highly acclaimed first volume of Theatres of Memory, Island Stories is an engrossing journey of discovery into the multiple meanings of national myths, their anchorage in daily life and their common sense of a people’s destiny. Raphael Samuel reveals the palimpsest of British national histories, offering a searching yet affectionate account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles, cherished by the “four nations” that inhabit the British Isles. Samuel is interested by the fact that traditions can disappear no less abruptly than they were invented. How is it, he asks, that the Scots have lost interest in a British narrative of which they were once a central protagonist? Why is the celebration of “Britons” thriving today just as its object has become problematic? Island Stories marvelously conveys the mutability of national conceits. Samuel calls as witness a galaxy of authorities—Bede and Gerald of Barri, Macaulay and Stubbs, Shakespeare and Dickens, Lord Reith and Raymond Williams, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Benn—each of whom sought to renew the sense of national identity by means of an acute sense of the past. Island Stories is a luminous study of the way nations use their past to lend meaning to the present and future. This sequel to the widely acclaimed Theatres of Memory is as passionate, unexpected and enjoyable as its predecessor.