Consuming the Past
Author | : Elizabeth Emery |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2018-12-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780429840647 |
ISBN-13 | : 0429840640 |
Rating | : 4/5 (640 Downloads) |
Download or read book Consuming the Past written by Elizabeth Emery and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003 Consuming the Past covers pilgrimages to popular festivals, from modern spectacles to advertising, from the work of avant-garde painters to the novels of Emile Zola, and explores the complexity of the fin-de-siècle French fascination with the Middle Ages. The authors map the cultural history of the period from the end of the Franco-Prussian war to the 1905 separation of Church and State illuminating the powerful appeal that the medieval past held for a society undergoing the rapid changes of industrialisation.