{"product_id":"susan-owens-imagining-englands-past-2023-hardback","title":"Susan Owens: Imagining England's Past [2023] hardback","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eImagining England's Past\u003c\/i\u003e takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the glamorous to the disturbing, from the eighth century to the present day.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e England has long built its sense of self on visions of its past. What does it mean for medieval writers to summon King Arthur from the post-Roman fog; for William Morris to resurrect the skills of the medieval workshop and Julia Margaret Cameron to portray the Arthurian court with her Victorian camera; or for Yinka Shonibare in the final years of the twentieth century to visualize a Black Victorian dandy? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By exploring the imaginations of successive generations, this book reveals how diverse notions of the past have inspired literature, art, music, architecture and fashion. It shines a light on subjects from myths to mock-Tudor houses, Stonehenge to steampunk, and asks how - and why - the past continues so powerfully to shape the present. Not a history of England, but a history of those who have written, painted and dreamed it into being, \u003ci\u003eImagining England's Past\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lively, erudite account of the making and manipulation of the days of old.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Praise for \u003ci\u003eImagining England's Past\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Susan Owens conjures our imagined past with such vivacity and lyricism that I can see the dawn mist rising over fabled fields and hear the tread of fictional histories on the worn stairs of yesteryear. Packed full of myths, stories, poems and paintings I found this book impossible to put down!'\u003cbr\u003e Charlotte Mullins, broadcaster, art critic and author of \u003ci\u003eA Little History of Art\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Owens, Susan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47456362824019,"sku":"9780500024331","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/owens-susan-susan-owens-imagining-england-s-past-2023-hardback-9780500024331-59090477482323.jpg?v=1727165821","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/susan-owens-imagining-englands-past-2023-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}