Myths of the English / edited by Roy Porter
1993, First Edition. Cambridge, England : Polity Press. Very good paperback library copy; wrapper slightly creased and edges slightly nicked. Bright and clean internally, aside from usual library stamps. Library-laminated. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #450672
ISBN: 0745613063
Physical description; xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Gilbert and Sullivan: The making and un-making of a British 'tradition' / David Cannadine -- Speaking with double tongue: Mother Goose and the old wives' tale / Marina Warner -- The fifth of November remembered / David Cressy -- The tramp / M.A. Crowther -- The English Bobby: An indulgent tradition / Clive Emsley -- Name upon name: The Great War and Remembrance / Bob Bushaway -- Discretion, sobriety and wisdom: The teacher in children's books / Margaret Kinnell -- Authority in the university: Balliol, Newnham and the new mythology / Reba N. Soffer -- The gentleman and the hero: Wellington and Napoleon in the nineteenth century / Iain Pears -- Britishness and portraiture / Gertrude Prescott Nuding. Subjects; National characteristics, English. Great Britain Civilization.
Price: €21.00