Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain

List of contents

Chapter I. Introduction: "In a Wondrous Age"
Chapter II. Heritage’s Patina: Troping Polity and Preservation
Chapter III. Heritage as Givenness: The Legacy of Phenomenology
Chapter IV. Icon and Image: Heritage as Postmodern Spectacle
Chapter V. Legacy Visions: The Image of Heritage Cinema in Brideshead Revisited, The Remains of the Day, and Downton Abbey
Chapter VI. Enterprising Heritage: Industry, Tourism, and Metaculture
Chapter VII. Fictions of Industry, Tales of Culture
Chapter VIII. From Heritage to Historic Environment: Diversity and Spatialized Inheritance in the New Labour Year
Chapter IX. Haunting the Environment: Roots and Specters in Smith, Mantel, and Oyeyemi
Chapter X. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Trimm, Trimm Ryan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138285590
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28559-0
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism