Weeping Britannia : portrait of a nation in tears /
"There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the �...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: I Am a Rock -- PART I: PIETY -- 1. Looking for Margery -- 2. Marie Magdalen's Funeral Teares -- 3. Titus Andronicus: Ha, Ha, Ha! -- 4. The Actor, the Witch, and the Puritan -- PART II: ENTHUSIASM -- 5. Stop, Gabriel! -- 6. Four Hundred Pounds to Cry -- 7. The Man of Feeling -- 8. The French Revolution -- PART III: PATHOS -- 9. The Sanity of George III -- 10. Strange Blessing on the Nation -- 11. Little Nell Without Laughing -- 12. Damp Justice -- PART IV: RESTRAINT -- 13. Old Ladies and Other Animals -- 14. The 'If' Upper Lip -- 15. Patriotism is Not Enough -- 16. Thank-You for Coming Back to Me -- PART V: FEELINGS -- 17. Grief Observed -- 18. Ha'way the Lads! -- 19. The Thatcher Tears -- 20. Sensibility Regained -- Conclusion: I Am the Sea. | |
| 520 | |a "There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe in the early fifteenth century, to Paul Gascoigne's famous tears in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. In between, the book includes the tears of some of the most influential figures in British history, from Oliver Cromwell to Margaret Thatcher (not forgetting George III, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, and Winston Churchill along the way). But the history of weeping in Britain is not simply one of famous tear-stained individuals. These tearful micro-histories all contribute to a bigger picture of changing emotional ideas and styles over the centuries, touching on many other fascinating areas of our history. ..."--Publisher description. | ||
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