Modern Times - Reflections on a Century of English Modernity

An innovative collection addressing the emergence of modern identities and cultural forms in urban England over the past 100 years. `This book will help set the agenda for cultural analysis for years to come.' - Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank Univ.

List of contents

1. English subjects of Modernity - Alan O'Shea 2. Modernity's disavowal: women, the city and the department store - Mica Nava 3. Sensation of the abyss: the urban poor and Modernity - John Marriott 4. Night battles: hooligan and citizen - Bill Schwarz 5. Sodomy to Salome: Camp revisions of Modernism, Modernity and Masquerade - Peter Horne 6. The mysteries and secrets of women's bodies: sexual knowledge in the first half of the twentieth century - Sally Alexander 7. Black Metropolis, White England - Bill Schwarz 8. Re-placing British music - Andrew Blake 9. What a day for a daydream: cinema, Modernity and the popular imagination in the late twentieth century - Alan O'Shea

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Mica Nava, Alan O¿Shea

Summary

An innovative collection addressing the emergence of modern identities and cultural forms in urban England over the past 100 years. `This book will help set the agenda for cultural analysis for years to come.' - Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank Univ.

Product details

• Authors: Alan O'Shea
• Assisted by: Mica Nava (Editor), Nava Mica (Editor), Alan O'Shea (Editor), O'Shea Alan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.1995
• EAN: 9780415069328
• ISBN: 978-0-415-06932-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 690 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, British Empire, Anthropology, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, General and world history