Table Of ContentNew Perspectives in British Cultural History
New Perspectives in British Cultural History
Edited by
Rosalind Crone
David Gange
and
Katy Jones
CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING
New Perspectives in British Cultural History, edited by Rosalind Crone, David Gange and Katy Jones
This book first published 2007 by
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Copyright © 2007 by Rosalind Crone, David Gange, Katy Jones and contributors
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ISBN 1-84718-155-4; ISBN 13: 9781847181558
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations...........................................................................................viii
Introduction
Rosalind Crone and David Gange........................................................................1
Part I: Place
Chapter One.........................................................................................................8
Katy Jones
The View from the Viaduct: The Impact of Railways upon Images
of English Provincial Towns, 1830-1857
Chapter Two.......................................................................................................22
Robin Usher
Reading the Cityscape: Dublin’s Churches, 1670-1720
Chapter Three.....................................................................................................37
Tom Neuhaus
“Of Yetis and Men”: Representations of Tibet and the Himalayas,
c.1929-1953
Chapter Four......................................................................................................47
Angus Vine
Marvels in the Desert: Pyramids and Pyramidography in
Early-Modern England
Part II: Religion
Chapter Five.......................................................................................................62
Bertram Troeger
A Protestant Hero: Religious Aspects of Oliver Cromwell’s Victorian
Reputation
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Chapter Six.........................................................................................................78
Danilo Raponi
Religious Reformation and National Unity: British Protestants and Italy,
1860-1870
Chapter Seven....................................................................................................90
Gareth Atkins
Reason versus Revelation? The Evangelical Apologetic of Thomas
Rawson Birks
Part III: Consumer Cultures
Chapter Eight...................................................................................................104
Annabella Pollen
Civilising Sucking: The Production of Ceramic Infant Feeding Devices
in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter Nine....................................................................................................118
David Clampin
Between Representations and Practices: Commercial Advertising
and British Home Front Culture during the Second World War
Part IV: Modernity, Science and Re-Enchantment
Chapter Ten......................................................................................................136
Karl Bell
Illuminated by Darkness: Superstition, The Supernatural and the Challenges
of Modernity, c.1800-1870
Chapter Eleven.................................................................................................147
Jennifer Hallett
Paganism, Magic and Mystery Religion in Late-Victorian England
Chapter Twelve................................................................................................158
David Gange
Religion and Science in Late-Nineteenth Century Egyptology
Chapter Thirteen..............................................................................................169
Antti Tahvanainen
Astronomical Language in the Republican Writing of James Harrington
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Chapter Fourteen..............................................................................................178
Chris Smyth
Perceptions of Natural Events as an Approach to Cultural History
Part V: Text
Chapter Fifteen.................................................................................................192
Paul White
Lives and Letters: Correspondence and Public Character
in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Sixteen................................................................................................203
Rosalind Crone
Cries of Murder and Sounds of Bloodshed: The Practice of Reading Cheap
Fiction in Working-Class Communities in Early-Victorian London
Chapter Seventeen............................................................................................214
Michael Ledger-Lomas
French Novels in Mid-Victorian England
Part VI: Music
Chapter Eighteen..............................................................................................232
George Corbett
Auden’s “Imaginary Song”
Chapter Nineteen..............................................................................................244
James McGrath
Reading Post-War Britain in Lennon and McCartney’s Imagined
Communities
Chapter Twenty................................................................................................255
Liz Naylor
Must the Hacienda be Built?
Chapter Twenty One........................................................................................266
Matthew Prichard
The Kinks, or a Redefinition of English National Identity
Contributors.....................................................................................................275
Index................................................................................................................280
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1-1. J. Landseer after J. Farington, “View of Stockport”, in W. Byrne, Britannia
Depicta (London, c. 1810). Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of
Cambridge University Library.
1-2. “Stockport Viaduct–Manchester”, in The Land We Live In (3 vols., London,
1854-6), I, p. 220. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge
University Library.
1-3..General View of Birmingham (c.1855). Birmingham Local Studies Library,
WK/B11/2626. Reproduced by permission of Birmingham Local Studies
Library.
1-4. A. Johnson, Birmingham, from the Railway, Upper Saltley (c.1855).
Birmingham Local Studies Library, WK/B11/2619. Reproduced by
permission of Birmingham Local Studies Library.
1-5. “View from the top of Kilsby Tunnel”, in S. Sidney, Rides on Railways
(London, 1851), p. 64. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of
Cambridge University Library.
1-6. J. C. Bourne, “Chippenham Viaduct”, in The History and Description of the
Great Western Railway (London, 1843), p. 49. Reproduced by permission
of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
1-7. G. B. Richardson and J. Christie, Arch Over Dean Street, Newcastle on
Tyne (c.1850). Fitzwilliam Museum P.44-1986. Reproduced by permission
of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
2-1. St Andrew’s Church and environs, Dublin. Author’s private collection.
2-2. St Mary’s, Mary Street, Dublin. Author’s private collection.
2-3. St Luke’s, the Coombe, Dublin. Author’s private collection.
2-4. St Werburgh’s, Werburgh Street, Dublin. Author’s private collection.
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4-1. “The Ægyptian Pyramides & colossus”, George Sandys, A Relation of a
Journey Begun An: Dom: 1610 (London 1615), p. 128. Cambridge
University Library, Syn.4.61.5. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics
of Cambridge University Library.
4-2. “The ‘pyramid’ near Ystad”, Ole Worm, Danicorum monumentorum libri
sex (Copenhagen, 1643), p. 179. Cambridge University Library, T.3.47.
Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
4-3. “The inside of the first and fairest Pyramid”, John Greaves,
Pyramidographia: or A Description of the Pyramids in Ægypt (London,
1646), pp. 102-3. Cambridge University Library, M*.6.35(E). Reproduced
by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
8-1. Blue and white transfer printed sucking bottle and pap boat. Reproduced by
kind permission of the Baby-Bottle Museum, www.babybottle-
museum.co.uk
8-2. Sucking bottle featuring Chinoiserie design. Reproduced by kind
permission of the Baby-Bottle Museum, www.babybottle-museum.co.uk
8-3. Wedgwood sucking bottle, c.1820, with hybrid Chinoiserie style.
Reproduced by kind permission of the Baby-Bottle Museum,
www.babybottle-museum.co.uk
8-4. Collection of late-eighteenth and early-twentieth century sucking bottles,
showing a variety of prints. Reproduced by kind permission of the Baby-
Bottle Museum, www.babybottle-museum.co.uk
9-1. Advertisement for King Six Cigars, Picture Post, 4 November 1939, p. 12.
Reproduced by kind permission of Gallaher Group Plc.
9-2. Advertisement for Rosebank Fabrics, Picture Post, 2 December 1939,
p. 57. Reproduced by kind permission of Arthur Sanderson & Sons.
Rosebank & Rosebank Fabrics are registered trademarks of Arthur
Sanderson & Sons (a division of Arabis Holdings Ltd.).
9-3. Advertisement for Rosebank Fabrics. Picture Post, 9 December 1939, p. 5.
Reproduced by kind permission of Arthur Sanderson & Sons.
