The golden age : nostalgia in word and image / edited by Elizabeth Rogers [and 3 others].

Contributor(s):

Rogers, Elizabeth [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 138 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781443816472
1443816477

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

152.4 23

LOC classification:

BF575.N6 G65 2016eb

Online resources:

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Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface and Thanks; Introduction; Shakespeare's Henry V; Present Mysteries, Removed Occasions? Idealised Magnificence and Political Pragmatism in Ben Jonson's The Golden Age Restored; Yearning for Home; "I am Big. It's the Pictures that got Small"; Undercutting Arcadia; End to End Action; 'You're Goddamn Right I'm Living in the Fucking Past'; All that Glisters ... Nostalgia and Censorship in the Golden Age of Comics; Contributors

Summary: This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term 'The Golden Age'. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term 'Golden Age' typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, a.

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Based on a conference held by English postgraduate students at the University of Dundee in June 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

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This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term 'The Golden Age'. The phrase resonates with the theme of nostalgia, which is popularly understood as a wistful longing for the past, but which also denotes homesickness and the unrecoverability of the past. While the term 'Golden Age' typically conjures up idealised visions of the past and gestures forward to utopian visions of future golden ages, the idea of nostalgia is suggestive of a discontented present. The Golden Age and nostalgia are therefore related ideas, but are also partly in conflict with one another, a.

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