Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367885663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 350 str.

Ryan Trimm

Opis

Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. It interrogates metaphoric resonances: that bestowing past, receiving present, and transmitted bounty are all singular and unified; that transmission between

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ryan Trimm is Associate Professor of English and Film Media at the University of Rhode Island, USA.