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SHAME AND MODERNITY IN BRITAIN IBD

ANNE MARIE KILDAY / DAVID S NASH
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
02 / 2017
9780230359338
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Sinopsis

This book argues that traditional images and practices associated with shame did not recede with the coming of modern Britain. Following the authorsâÇÖ acclaimed and successful nineteenth century book, Cultures of Shame, this new monograph moves forward to look at shame in the modern era. As such, it investigates how social and cultural expectations in both war and peace, changing attitudes to sexual identities and sexual behaviour, new innovations in media and changing representations of reputation, all became sites for shameâÇÖs reconstruction, making it thoroughly modern and in tune with twentieth century BritainâÇÖs expectations. Using a suite of detailed micro-histories, the book examines a wide expanse of twentieth century sites of shameá includingá conceptions of cowardice/conscientious objection during the First World War, fraud and clerical scandal in the interwar years, the shame associated with both abortion and sexual behaviour redefined in different ways as âÇÖdeviantâÇÖ, shoplifting in the 1980s and lastly, how homosexuality shifted from âÇÖComing OutâÇÖ to embracing âÇÖPrideâÇÖ, finally rediscovering the positivity of shame with the birth of the âÇÖQueerâÇÖ.áá