In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new, young Queen named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded anation that would now see its ‘modern’, televised monarch preside over animminently glorious and artistic age.This book provides the first in-depth investigation of New Elizabethanismand its legacy. With contributions from leading cultural practitioners andscholars, its essays explore New Elizabethanism as variously manifestin ballet and opera, the Coronation broadcast and festivities, nationalhistoriography and myth, the idea of the ‘Young Elizabethan’, celebrations ofair travel and new technologies, and the New Shakespeareanism of theatreand television. As these essays expose, New Elizabethanism was muchmore than a brief moment of optimistic hyperbole.Indeed, from moderndrama and film to the reinternment of Richard III, from the London Olympicsto the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, it continues to pervade contemporaryartistic expression, politics, and key moments of national pageantry.
Irene Morra & Rob Gossedge
New Elizabethan Age [EPUB ebook]
Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II
New Elizabethan Age [EPUB ebook]
Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II
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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 360 ● ISBN 9780857728678 ● Editor Irene Morra & Rob Gossedge ● Editura I.B.Tauris ● Publicat 2016 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 5012746 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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