[PDF] Cultures Of London eBook

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1136495290

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British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area of study, analyzing the ways of teaching and reading British culture. The work covers the contemporary and key issues, including: the terminological distinction between 'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' the problem of national cultures and identities in contemporary Britain studying language and literature from a British Studies perspective models for studying the historical context of the development of ideas of `Britishness' studying contemporary Britain overseas The contributors are some of the key names in current debates surrounding British Studies, and Susan Bassnett holds together their work with a substantial and accessible introduction. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction will be essential reading for students and teachers concerned with the study of contemporary Britain.

Author : Richard Tames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195309539

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Richard Tames describes how London has been chronicled, described, celebrated, named, and mapped over the twenty centuries of its existence to become a city treasured even by those who have never set foot in it as a byword for innovation and diversity. This book has been written for those who, knowing London, know that it is too vast, too complex, too elusive ever to be fully known but yet would like to know it better still.

Author : C. P. Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,50 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107606144

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The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Culture
ISBN : 1134349483

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This collection of essays analyses the ways of teaching and reading British culture. It covers contemporary issues such as the problem of national cultures and identities in modern Britain and the historical context of 'Britishness'.

Author : Charlotte Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,26 MB
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350242047

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From its origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London's history and culture has been shaped by migration. This book expresses and celebrates the plurality of the capital's cultures and affirms the importance of migration in the making of the modern city through thirty-three short essays written by academics, artists, broadcasters and curators. Subjects range from the mediaeval to the contemporary: buildings and institutions, individuals and communities, objects, visual art, street performances and literary texts. Some contributors focus on famous people and places, like Shakespeare and St Paul's, while others explore less well-known subjects, like the Free German League of Culture (1939-46) or Ignatius Sancho, the eighteenth-century musician, grocer and man-of-letters. It is not only London's cultures which are diverse, migration is also plural. This book engages with the very many human migrations from across the globe and within the British Isles that have taken place over the last two-thousand years, as well as with the movements of plants, animals, and ideologies from other countries and continents, and the movement of natural resources and manmade toxins into and through the city. Composed of a vivid collection of snapshots, the volume offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the city and provides new insights into the successive migrant communities that have come to London and made it their own.

Author : Catherine Hall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415929066

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This reader collects together articles by key historians, literary critics and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is divided into three sections: theoretical, emphasizing approaches; the colonisers "at home"; and "away".

Author : Simon Eliot
Publisher :
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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Derived from papers presented at an international symposium held at the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies in the Institute of English Studies in the University of London and at the British Library, London in 2004.

Author : Cynthia Wall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521630139

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This book explores the literary and cultural rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666.

Author : Malcolm Miles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134257708

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Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts, cultural institutions and heritage, distinctive ways of life - are seen to be differently used in or affected by the development of particular cities. The book does not mask the complexity of this, but explains it in ways accessible for undergraduates. The book begins with introductory chapters on the concepts of a city and a culture (the latter in the anthropological sense as well as denoting the arts), citing cases from modern literature. The book then moves from a critical account of cultural production in a metropolitan setting to the idea that a city, too, is produced through the characteristic ways of life of its inhabitants. The cultural industries are scrutinised for their relation to such cultures as well as to city marketing, and attention is given to the European Cities of Culture initiative, and to the hybridity of contemporary urban cultures in a period of globalisation and migration. In its penultimate chapter the book looks at incidental cultural forms and cultural means to identify formation; and in its final chapter, examines the permeability of urban cultures and cultural forms. Sources are introduced, positions clarified and contrasted, and notes given for selective further reading. Playing on the two meanings of culture, Miles takes an unique approach by relating arguments around these meanings to specific cases of urban development today. The book includes both critical comment on a range of literatures - being a truly inter-disciplinary study - and the outcome of the author's field research into urban cultures.