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Thomas Dixon - Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears - 9780199676064 - V9780199676064
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Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears

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Description for Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears Paperback. The history of six centuries of weeping Britons. A comprehensive debunking of the myth of the British 'stiff upper lip', from medieval mystics to Margaret Thatcher Num Pages: 456 pages, 30 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBTB; JF. Dimension: 216 x 135. .
There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. Far from being a persistent element in the 'national character', the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of our past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199676064
SKU
V9780199676064
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99-29

About Thomas Dixon
Thomas Dixon is a historian of emotions, philosophy, science, and religion at Queen Mary, University of London, where he directs the Centre for the History of the Emotions. A regular contributor to radio and television programmes as an academic consultant, interviewee, and presenter, he was the consultant for Ian Hislop's Stiff Upper Lip: An Emotional History of Britain, a three-part ... Read more

Reviews for Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears
An insightful cultural history, and an invitation to reassess our own perception of tears as a healthy emotional response: timely and thought-provoking.
Juanita Coulson, The Lady
Lively and entertaining.
Jane Shilling, The Daily Mail
The book I most enjoyed this year was Thomas Dixon's Weeping Britannia.Using a wide range of literary sources and personal documents, the ... Read more

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