# Imagining England's Past

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- Authors: [Susan Owens](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-owens)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2023-04-13

## Description

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? 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, Imagining England's Past offers a lively, erudite account of the making and manipulation of the days of old.

## Editions

### Imagining England's Past

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0002-433-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2023-04-13
- Language: en_GB