Reviews: Reading the Past, Packing and Unpacking Culture: Changing Models of British Studies, Practising New Historicism, Dust, History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches, Hamlet in Purgatory, Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England, Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics and Society in English Renaissance Drama, et al., Anna of Denmark, Queen of England, the Royal Image: Representations of Charles I, How Milton Works, a Letter to My Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the, the Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution, Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers, Memory and History in George Eliot: Transfiguring the Past, the West-Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in its Place, ‘India's Prisoner’: A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886–1946, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780–1865, B. L. Coombes, Diana: A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess, the American MysterySpargoTamsin (ed.), Reading the Past , Palgrave2000, pp. xii + 200, £14.99 pb.JarrettDavid, KowalewskiTomasz and RiddenGeoff (eds), Packing and Unpacking Culture: Changing Models of British Studies , Copernicus University, Torún, 2001, pp. 270, £4.GallagherCatherine and GreenblattStephen, Practising New Historicism , University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. ix + 249, £16.00; ChildsPeter, Modernism , Routledge, 2000, pp. xi + 226, $8.99 pb.SteedmanCarolyn, Dust , Manchester University Press, 2001, pp. xi + 195, £9.99.HudsonPat, History by Numbers: An Introduction to Quantitative Approaches , Arnold, 2000, pp. 278, £45, £14.99 pb.; MunslowAlun, The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies , Routledge, 2000, pp. 271, £47.50, £12.99 pb.GreenblattStephen, Hamlet in Purgatory , Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. xii + 322, £19.95.SummersClaude J. and PebworthTed-Larry (eds), Literary Circles and Cultural Communities in Renaissance England , University of Missouri Press, 2000, pp. xii + 243, £33.95.NeillMichael, Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics and Society in English Renaissance Drama , Columbia University Press, 2000, pp. xii + 527, £22.00; TauntonNina, 1590s Drama and Militarism: Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare's Henry V, Ashgate, 2001, pp. vii + 239, £42.50.MarcusLeah S. (eds), Elizabeth I: Collected Works , University of Chicago Press, 2000, pp. 632, £25.BarrollLeeds, Anna of Denmark, Queen of England , University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001, pp. 220, £28.50.CornsThomas N. (ed.), The Royal Image: Representations of Charles I , Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. vi + 316, £40.FishStanley, How Milton Works , Harvard University Press, 2001, pp. 616, £23.95; LaresJameela, Milton and the Preaching Arts , James Clarke & Co., 2001, pp. 368, £40.00.OvertonBill (ed.), A Letter to my Love: Love Poems by Women First Published in the Barbados Gazette, 1731–37 , Rosemont Publishing, 2001, pp. 155, £27.GrenbyM. O., The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution , Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. xiii + 271, £40.BloomAbigail Burnham (ed.), Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers , Aldwych Press, 2000, pp. x + 466, £71.50.LiHao, Memory and History in George Eliot: Transfiguring the Past , Macmillan, 2000, pp. xiv + 227, £42.50.TreziseSimon, The West-Country as a Literary Invention: Putting Fiction in its Place , University of Exeter Press, 2000, pp. xvi + 256, £42.00, £13.99 pb.LagoMary, ‘India's Prisoner‘: A Biography of Edward John Thompson, 1886–1946 , University of Missouri Press, 2001, pp. xi + 388, £33.95.WoodMarcus, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780–1865 , Manchester University Press, 2000, pp. 341, £49.95, £17.99 pb.JonesBill and WilliamsChris, B. L. Coombes , University of Wales Press, 1999, Writers of Wales, pp. 114, £5.99; JonesBill and WilliamsChris (eds), With Dust Still in His Throat: A B. L. Coombes Anthology , University of Wales Press, 1999, pp. 208, £9.99; MurphyMichael (ed.), The Collected George Garrett , Trent Editions, 1999, pp. xxix + 270, £7.99 pb.DaviesJude, Diana: A Cultural History: Gender, Race, Nation and the People's Princess , Palgrave, 2001, pp. 250, £47.50, £16.99 pb.TannerTony, The American Mystery , Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. xxiv + 242, £35, £13.95 pb.

2003 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-100
Author(s):  
David Watson ◽  
V. G. Kiernan ◽  
Gary Farnell ◽  
Christopher Parker ◽  
Mark Allen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The Past ◽  
English Renaissance Drama ◽  
Image Representations

Reviews: The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective, on the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and its Aftermath, Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past, Postmodernism in History: Fear or Freedom?, Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama, Early Modern Civil Discourses, ‘A moving Rhetoricke’: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England, Society and Culture in Early Modern England, the English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630–1660, An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657–1727, Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires, and Delectable Goods, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain, the French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789–1805, Nationalism, Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Culture, Modernism, Male Friendship and the First World War, Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War, Manliness and the Boy's Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940McCullaghC. Behan, The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective , Routledge, 2004, pp. viii + 212, £18.99 pbBreisachE., On the Future of History: The Postmodernist Challenge and its Aftermath , University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. vii + 236, $16.00 pb.WilliamsL. Blakeney, Modernism and the Ideology of History: Literature, Politics, and the Past , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 265, £40.SouthgateBeverley, Postmodernism in History: Fear or Freedom? Routledge, 2003, pp. xi + 211, £55, £16.99 pb.BrusterDouglas, Quoting Shakespeare: Form and Culture in Early Modern Drama , University of Nebraska Press, 2001, pp. 288, £35.50.RichardsJennifer (ed.), Early Modern Civil Discourses , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 206, $65.00.LuckyjChristina, ‘A moving Rhetoricke‘: Gender and Silence in Early Modern England , Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. viii + 198, £40.CressyDavid, Society and Culture in Early Modern England , Variorum Collected Studies Series, Ashgate, 2003, pp. xii + 344, £57.50.McDowellNicholas, The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630–1660 , Clarendon Press, 2003, pp. x + 219, £45.BurnsWilliam E., An Age of Wonders: Prodigies, Politics and Providence in England, 1657–1727 , Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 218, £45.BergMaxine and EgerElizabeth (eds), Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires, and Delectable Goods , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. xii + 259, 41 plates, £55.SweetRosemary, Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain , Hambledon & London, 2004, pp. xxi + 473, £25.TaylorGeorge, The French Revolution and the London Stage, 1789–1805 , Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. x + 263, £45.AttridgeSteve, Nationalism, Imperialism and Identity in Late Victorian Culture , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. 229, £45.ColeSarah, Modernism, Male Friendship and the First World War , Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 297, £40FrantzenAllen J., Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War , University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. 335, £24.50.BoydKelly, Manliness and the Boy's Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855–1940 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, pp. x + 273, £60.

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-100
Author(s):  
Christopher Parker ◽  
David Watson ◽  
Alan Armstrong ◽  
Ben Lowe ◽  
Carrie Hintz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Victorian Culture ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Past ◽  
The First World War

Reviews: Cultural History, History Meets Fiction, the Masculine Self in Late Medieval England, the Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition, Writing Lives. Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modem England, Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain, Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modem England, Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage, Shakespeare and the Nobility: The Negotiation of Lineage., Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture, Shakespeare and Garrick, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women, Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism, the Victorians and Old Age, Shakespeare and Victorian Women., Becoming a Woman of Letters. Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market, the Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan, Hitler's War Poets: Literature and Politics in the Third Reich, the Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850, the Oprah Affect: Critical Essay s on Oprah's Book ClubAnnaGreen, Cultural History , Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. viii + 163, £15.99BeverleySouthgate, History Meets Fiction , Pearson, 2009, pp. xi + 215, £14.99 pbDerekG. Neal, The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England , University of Chicago Press, 2008. pp. xii + 320. $68.00; $25.00 pb.KristenDeiter, The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition , Routledge, 2008, pp. xiii+259, £60KevinSharpe and ZwickerSteven N. (eds), Writing Lives. Biography and Textuality, Identity and Representation in Early Modem England , Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. xiii + 369, £55.CatharineGray, Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain , Early Modern Cultural Studies, 1500–1700, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x + 262, £42.50KimberlyAnne Coles, Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modem England , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. vii + 250, £50.TomRutter, Work and Play on the Shakespearean Stage , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. x + 205. £65CatherineGrace Canino, Shakespeare and the Nobility: The Negotiation of Lineage. Cambridge University Press, 2007. pp. x + 266, £50AnneDunan-Page and LynchBeth (eds), Roger L'Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture , Ashgate, 2008, pp. xx + 236, £55.VanessaCunningham, Shakespeare and Garrick , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. viii + 231, £50.MarionRust, Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women , University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. x + 311, $59.95, $24.95 pb.AlexanderDick and EsterhammerAngela (eds), Spheres of Action: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture , University of Toronto Press, 2009, pp. viii + 306, £42.RobertS. Levine, Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism , University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. x + 322, $59.95, $21.95 (pb).KarenChase, The Victorians and Old Age , Oxford University Press, 2009, pp. xiv + 284, £55; LooserDorothy, Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain 1750–1850, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pp. xvi + 234, £29.GailMarshall, Shakespeare and Victorian Women. Cambridge University Press, 2009. pp. x+ 207. £50.LindaH. Peterson, Becoming a Woman of Letters. Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market , Princeton University Press, 2009, pp. xv + 289, £19.95.EdenD. and SarembaM. (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Gilbert and Sullivan , Cambridge University Press, 2009, pp. v + 274. £17.99 pb.JayBaird, Hitler's War Poets: Literature and Politics in the Third Reich , Cambridge University Press, 2008. pp. xv + 284. £47, £17.99 pb.LennardTennenhouse, The Importance of Feeling English: American Literature and the British Diaspora, 1750–1850. Princeton University Press, 2007, pp. x + 158, $35.CeciliaKonchar Farr and HarkerJaime (eds) The Oprah Affect: Critical Essay s on Oprah's Book Club , 2008, SUNY Press, pp. 336, $74.50, $24.95 pb.

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-104
Author(s):  
Gary Farnell ◽  
Christopher Parker ◽  
John M. Fyler ◽  
Christopher Highley ◽  
R. C. Richardson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Early American ◽  
English Renaissance Drama ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Late Medieval England

How to Do Things with History

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Thread

How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter. These essays, which bring together the work of some of the most talented scholars in the field, are based upon papers delivered at a conference held at Cambridge University in September 2014 in honor of Paul Cartledge’s retirement from the post of A. G. Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Culture. The assembled essays trace the broad horizons charted by Cartledge’s work: from studies of political thinking to accounts of legal and cultural practices to politically astute approaches to historiography. The contributors to this volume all take the parameters and contours of Cartledge’s work, which has profoundly influenced an entire generation of scholars, as starting points for their own historical and historiographical explorations. Those parameters and contours provide a common thread that runs through and connects all of the essays while also offering sufficient freedom for individual contributors to demonstrate an array of rich and varied approaches to the study of the past.

scholarly journals CULTURE AND CHRONOLOGY IN AFRICAN HISTORY

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 483-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEREK R. PETERSON
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Distinct Group ◽  
African History ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oxford University Press

Sources and methods in African history: spoken, written, unearthed. Edited by T. Falola and C. Jennings. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004. Pp. xxi+409. ISBN 1-58046-140-9. £50.00.Honour in African history. By John Iliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xv+404. ISBN 0-521-54685-0. £16.99.Black experience and the empire. Edited by P. Morgan and S. Hawkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv+416. ISBN 0-19-926029-x. £39.00. Muslim societies in African history. By D. Robinson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xx+220. ISBN 0-521-533566-x. £10.99.The study of African culture stands in a uneasy relationship with the study of African history. Historians work by pegging people, places, and events to a place on time's ever-lengthening yardstick. For the historical discipline, time is a structure that stands behind and lends meaning to human events. Culture, by contrast, is often claimed to be timeless, the unique inheritance of a distinct group of people. Culture builders work by short-circuiting chronology. They poach events, names, clothing styles, and other inspirational elements from the past and marshal them as a tradition to be proud of. The study of cultural history enters into a field where the partitions between past and present are being trampled by the traffic of human imagination.

THE BIRTH OF MODERN MEMORY

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
MATTHEW LEVINGER
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Culture ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

John Edward Toews, Becoming Historical: Cultural Reformation and Public Memory in Early Nineteenth-Century Berlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. pp. xxiv + 466.George S. Williamson, The Longing for Myth in Germany: Religion and Aesthetic Culture from Romanticism to Nietzsche. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. pp. xiv + 428.Peter Fritzsche, Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. pp. 268.Each generation chooses its own objects of historical inquiry. Over the past decade or two, many historians have moved away from perennial topics in social and political history, turning their gaze on more ethereal questions in the realm of “memory studies.” The three splendid books under review here examine elusive phenomena in nineteenth-century Europe: the transformation of historical consciousness, the invention of national myths, and the emergence of nostalgia as a prominent element of European culture after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic age. Taken together, these works vividly illustrate both the value and the challenges of scholarship on the modern historical imagination.

Learning Zulu

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
South African ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
African History ◽  
African Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Correct Form ◽  
Linguistic Purism

When this book's author began studying Zulu, he was often questioned why he was learning it. This book places the author's endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. The book combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, the book reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning—from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. The book looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, the book examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, the book explores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.

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