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New Perspectives in British Cultural History New Perspectives in British Cultural History Edited by Rosalind Crone David Gange and Katy Jones CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING New Perspectives in British Cultural History, edited by Rosalind Crone, David Gange and Katy Jones This book first published 2007 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, NE5 2JA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2007 by Rosalind Crone, David Gange, Katy Jones and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 1-84718-155-4; ISBN 13: 9781847181558 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations...........................................................................................viii Introduction Rosalind Crone and David Gange........................................................................1 Part I: Place Chapter One.........................................................................................................8 Katy Jones The View from the Viaduct: The Impact of Railways upon Images of English Provincial Towns, 1830-1857 Chapter Two.......................................................................................................22 Robin Usher Reading the Cityscape: Dublin’s Churches, 1670-1720 Chapter Three.....................................................................................................37 Tom Neuhaus “Of Yetis and Men”: Representations of Tibet and the Himalayas, c.1929-1953 Chapter Four......................................................................................................47 Angus Vine Marvels in the Desert: Pyramids and Pyramidography in Early-Modern England Part II: Religion Chapter Five.......................................................................................................62 Bertram Troeger A Protestant Hero: Religious Aspects of Oliver Cromwell’s Victorian Reputation vi Table of Contents Chapter Six.........................................................................................................78 Danilo Raponi Religious Reformation and National Unity: British Protestants and Italy, 1860-1870 Chapter Seven....................................................................................................90 Gareth Atkins Reason versus Revelation? The Evangelical Apologetic of Thomas Rawson Birks Part III: Consumer Cultures Chapter Eight...................................................................................................104 Annabella Pollen Civilising Sucking: The Production of Ceramic Infant Feeding Devices in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Chapter Nine....................................................................................................118 David Clampin Between Representations and Practices: Commercial Advertising and British Home Front Culture during the Second World War Part IV: Modernity, Science and Re-Enchantment Chapter Ten......................................................................................................136 Karl Bell Illuminated by Darkness: Superstition, The Supernatural and the Challenges of Modernity, c.1800-1870 Chapter Eleven.................................................................................................147 Jennifer Hallett Paganism, Magic and Mystery Religion in Late-Victorian England Chapter Twelve................................................................................................158 David Gange Religion and Science in Late-Nineteenth Century Egyptology Chapter Thirteen..............................................................................................169 Antti Tahvanainen Astronomical Language in the Republican Writing of James Harrington New Perspectives in British Cultural History vii Chapter Fourteen..............................................................................................178 Chris Smyth Perceptions of Natural Events as an Approach to Cultural History Part V: Text Chapter Fifteen.................................................................................................192 Paul White Lives and Letters: Correspondence and Public Character in the Nineteenth Century Chapter Sixteen................................................................................................203 Rosalind Crone Cries of Murder and Sounds of Bloodshed: The Practice of Reading Cheap Fiction in Working-Class Communities in Early-Victorian London Chapter Seventeen............................................................................................214 Michael Ledger-Lomas French Novels in Mid-Victorian England Part VI: Music Chapter Eighteen..............................................................................................232 George Corbett Auden’s “Imaginary Song” Chapter Nineteen..............................................................................................244 James McGrath Reading Post-War Britain in Lennon and McCartney’s Imagined Communities Chapter Twenty................................................................................................255 Liz Naylor Must the Hacienda be Built? Chapter Twenty One........................................................................................266 Matthew Prichard The Kinks, or a Redefinition of English National Identity Contributors.....................................................................................................275 Index................................................................................................................280 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1-1. J. Landseer after J. Farington, “View of Stockport”, in W. Byrne, Britannia Depicta (London, c. 1810). Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 1-2. “Stockport Viaduct–Manchester”, in The Land We Live In (3 vols., London, 1854-6), I, p. 220. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 1-3..General View of Birmingham (c.1855). Birmingham Local Studies Library, WK/B11/2626. Reproduced by permission of Birmingham Local Studies Library. 1-4. A. Johnson, Birmingham, from the Railway, Upper Saltley (c.1855). Birmingham Local Studies Library, WK/B11/2619. Reproduced by permission of Birmingham Local Studies Library. 1-5. “View from the top of Kilsby Tunnel”, in S. Sidney, Rides on Railways (London, 1851), p. 64. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 1-6. J. C. Bourne, “Chippenham Viaduct”, in The History and Description of the Great Western Railway (London, 1843), p. 49. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 1-7. G. B. Richardson and J. Christie, Arch Over Dean Street, Newcastle on Tyne (c.1850). Fitzwilliam Museum P.44-1986. Reproduced by permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2-1. St Andrew’s Church and environs, Dublin. Author’s private collection. 2-2. St Mary’s, Mary Street, Dublin. Author’s private collection. 2-3. St Luke’s, the Coombe, Dublin. Author’s private collection. 2-4. St Werburgh’s, Werburgh Street, Dublin. Author’s private collection. New Perspectives in British Cultural History ix 4-1. “The Ægyptian Pyramides & colossus”, George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey Begun An: Dom: 1610 (London 1615), p. 128. Cambridge University Library, Syn.4.61.5. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 4-2. “The ‘pyramid’ near Ystad”, Ole Worm, Danicorum monumentorum libri sex (Copenhagen, 1643), p. 179. Cambridge University Library, T.3.47. Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 4-3. “The inside of the first and fairest Pyramid”, John Greaves, Pyramidographia: or A Description of the Pyramids in Ægypt (London, 1646), pp. 102-3. Cambridge University Library, M*.6.35(E). Reproduced by permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 8-1. Blue and white transfer printed sucking bottle and pap boat. Reproduced by kind permission of the Baby-Bottle Museum, www.babybottle- museum.co.uk 8-2. Sucking bottle featuring Chinoiserie design. Reproduced by kind permission of the Baby-Bottle Museum, www.babybottle-museum.co.uk 8-3. Wedgwood sucking bottle, c.1820, with hybrid Chinoiserie style. Reproduced by kind permission of the Baby-Bottle Museum, www.babybottle-museum.co.uk 8-4. Collection of late-eighteenth and early-twentieth century sucking bottles, showing a variety of prints. Reproduced by kind permission of the Baby- Bottle Museum, www.babybottle-museum.co.uk 9-1. Advertisement for King Six Cigars, Picture Post, 4 November 1939, p. 12. Reproduced by kind permission of Gallaher Group Plc. 9-2. Advertisement for Rosebank Fabrics, Picture Post, 2 December 1939, p. 57. Reproduced by kind permission of Arthur Sanderson & Sons. Rosebank & Rosebank Fabrics are registered trademarks of Arthur Sanderson & Sons (a division of Arabis Holdings Ltd.). 9-3. Advertisement for Rosebank Fabrics. Picture Post, 9 December 1939, p. 5. Reproduced by kind permission of Arthur Sanderson & Sons.
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