Enchanted Glass Britain and Its Monarchy

Name: Enchanted Glass Britain and Its Monarchy
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ISBN: 9780091729554

ISBN-10: 0091729556

ISBN-13: 9780091729554

Edition: 1988 (Mini Edition)

Authors: Tom Nairn

List price: $12.95

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In this acclaimed meditation on the British state, its identity and culture, Tom Nairn sees the monarchy both as its apex and its essence, the symbol of a national backwardness. This powerful, analytical, and bitterly funny book lays bare Britain#xE2;#xAC;"s peculiar, pseudo-modern, national identity, one that remains fixated on the Crown and its constitutional framework, the #xE2;#xAC;Sparliamentary sovereignty#xE2;#xAC; of Westminster.

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Radius Books
Publication date: 3/17/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Tom Nairn divides his time between a home in the Republic of Ireland and his Professorial post at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) in Australia.



Foreword



The Mystery


A People's Monarchy


Are We All Mad?


Mystic Significance of a Small Bald Patch


Royalty and Fashion


Royalty Versus Celebrity


In the Doll's House: Crawfie Lives


What Are They Really Like?


Taboo-supported Niceness


Taboo and Idiot-Theory


Royalty and Civilization: the Mystery Deepens


Respectable and Popular Monarchy


Queenspeak


The Royal Touch


Regal Walkabout


Imponderable Insipidities


Tea With The Queen


Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Ukania



The Nation


A Special Explanation


Digression on Family Pets


'Disavowal'


Sociology of Grovelling


Sociology of Grovelling, Part 2


Enchantment in Retrospect


Monarchy and Nationalism


English Nationality


Leviathan and Later


Kings at Nightfall


'Parliamentary Sovereignty'


The Modern Venice


The Containment of Modernity


The Modernization of George III


Folklore From Above


The Royal Etiquette-lesson


Playing the Royal Game


The Heart of Archaism



The Glamour of Backwardness


Bustard Identity


Nationalism in Satin Breeches


A So-called English Prince


All Manner of Folk


The Nerves of Fetishism


The Outward-looking and the Backward-looking


The Royal Bomb: Implosions of Greatness


'Class': the Totem-shadow


The Monarchy of Letters


Speech and Silence of the Crown: Spectrogram of Greatness


Kitsch Identity: Sinuosity of the Truly Royal


Estates of the Realm


The Royal Prerogative



Quiet Republicanism


From Bang to Whimper


'Getting Rid of it Altogether'


Pseudo-Feudal Socialism


T.S. Eliot and Clap-trap: Fathomable Givenness


Bagehot: Dressing up the Mace


Chief Malefactor: 'The English Constitution'


Sooner Than One Thinks


Endless Dream-time?


Index