Meanings of modernity
Subtitle: Britain from the late-Victorian era to World War II
By: edited by Martin Daunton and Bernhard Rieger
Contributors: Rieger, Bernhard; Daunton, M. J.
Publisher: Berg; Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Great Britain; Arts, Modern -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Travelling in the Lady Guides' London : consumption, modernity, and the fin-de-siècle metropolis / Erika D. Rappaport; title: Advertising, the modernist aesthetic of the marketplace? The cultural relationship between the tobacco manufacturer and the "mass" of consumers in Britain, 1870-1940 / Matthew Hilton; title: Occultism and the "modern" self in fin-de-siècle Britain / Alex Owen; title: Psychology and the "consciousness of modernity" in early twentieth-century Britain / Mathew Thomson; title: The consciousness of modernity? Liberalism and the English "national character," 1870-1940 / Peter Mandler; title: Envisioning the future : British and German reactions to the Paris World Fair in 1900 / Bernhard Rieger; title: Modernity, community and history : narratives of innovation in the British coal industry / Michael Dintenfass; title: Modern mountains : the performative consciousness of modernity in Britain, 1870-1940 / Peter H. Hansen; title: Modernity and trusteeship : tensions of empire in Britain between the wars / Susan Pedersen; title: From somebodies to nobodies : Britons returning home from India / Elizabeth Buettner