A History of Everyday Life in Twentieth-Century Scotland

ISBN-13: 9780748624317 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str.

Lynn Abrams

Opis

Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and the way the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down from mid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture.This volume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-century Scotland to study the apparently mundane activities of people's lives, traversing the key spaces where daily experience is composed to expose the controversial personal and national politics that ritual and practice can generate.

Spis treści

Chapter 1, Lynn Abrams and Callum G. Brown, Introduction; Chapter 2: Callum G. Brown, Charting everyday experience; Chapter 3: Lynn Abrams and Linda Fleming, From scullery to conservatory: everyday life in the Scottish home; Chapter 4: Lynn Jamieson, Changing intimacy in the twentieth century: seeking and forming couple relationships; Chapter 5: Arthur McIvor, The realities and narratives of paid work: the Scottish workplace in the twentieth century; Chapter 6: Hilary Young, Being a man: everyday masculinities in twentieth-century Scotland; Chapter 7: Callum G. Brown, Spectacle, restraint and the twentieth-century Sabbath wars: the 'everyday' Scottish Sunday; Chapter 8: Steven Sutcliffe, After 'the religion of my fathers': the quest for composure in the 'post-presbyterian' self; Chapter 9: Angela Bartie, Culture in the everyday: art and society in twentieth-century Scotland; Chapter 10: John Stewart, Sickness and health in twentieth-century Scotland; Chapter 11: E.W. McFarland, Passing time: death in twentieth-century Scotland.