This edited collection examines Mass-Observation as an innovative research organization, a social-movement, and an archival project. It features essays that highlight the research of contemporary scholars and focuses on the thematic interdisciplinary use of materials from both the Mass-Observation Archive and the contemporary Mass Observation Project. In the last two decades, many scholars have used data collected by Mass-Observation to study British society in the interwar, wartime, and early post-war periods. In turn, scholarly analyses of the significance of the organization itself to the…mehr
This edited collection examines Mass-Observation as an innovative research organization, a social-movement, and an archival project. It features essays that highlight the research of contemporary scholars and focuses on the thematic interdisciplinary use of materials from both the Mass-Observation Archive and the contemporary Mass Observation Project. In the last two decades, many scholars have used data collected by Mass-Observation to study British society in the interwar, wartime, and early post-war periods. In turn, scholarly analyses of the significance of the organization itself to the study of literature, art, history, sociology, anthropology, and the broader realm of cultural studies has been subsequently undertaken. This volume presents cutting-edge scholarship that uses Mass Observation materials in innovative ways, exploring everyday life, visuality, writing, fashion, music, television, and emotion, among other subjects, in Britain since the 1930s in the process.
Lucy Curzon is Associate Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art History at the University of Alabama, USA. She is the author of Mass-Observation and Visual Culture: Depicting Everyday Lives in Britain (2017), which was awarded the 2018 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800. Benjamin Jones is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author of The Working Class in Mid-Twentieth-Century England (2012), which was positively reviewed in Sociology, American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, Journal of British Studies, The Historical Journal, Economic History Review, Contemporary British History, Twentieth Century British History, and Planning Perspectives.
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List of Charts Notes on Contributors Introduction: Historical Contexts or Contemporary Uses? Mass Observation and the Politics of Continuity Lucy Curzon and Ben Jones 1. Mass Observation Literature and Cultural Studies Ben Jones and Matt Taunton (both University of East Anglia UK) 2. Mass Observing Feeling Claire Langhamer 3. Anyone Can Paint: Mass Observation and the History of Art Lucy Curzon (University of Alabama USA) 4. 'Anthropology' MO and a Bit of Surrealism: Past Encounters Future Hopes Jeremy MacClancy (Oxford Brookes University UK) 5. Subjective Cameras and Ekphrastic Writing: The Present and Absent Photograph in Mass Observation Annebella Pollen 6. Mass-Observation and Popular Politics in Worktown Jon Lawrence and David Thackeray (both University of Exeter UK) 7. 'On receiving your letter I promptly dreamed you a war dream the next night': Writing the Citizen in Mass-Observation's Dream Archive Charlotte Hallahan (University of East Anglia UK) 8. Self-reflexivity Class Consciousness and Social Change in Mass Observation Narratives Nick Hubble (Brunel University UK) 9. Perforating Event and Narrative Experience and Analysis: Beyond the Retro Eighties Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex UK) Conclusion: Presence and Absence in the Archive: the In/visibility of Mass Observation Writers Rose Lindsey (University of Southampton) Index
List of Charts Notes on Contributors Introduction: Historical Contexts or Contemporary Uses? Mass Observation and the Politics of Continuity Lucy Curzon and Ben Jones 1. Mass Observation Literature and Cultural Studies Ben Jones and Matt Taunton (both University of East Anglia UK) 2. Mass Observing Feeling Claire Langhamer 3. Anyone Can Paint: Mass Observation and the History of Art Lucy Curzon (University of Alabama USA) 4. 'Anthropology' MO and a Bit of Surrealism: Past Encounters Future Hopes Jeremy MacClancy (Oxford Brookes University UK) 5. Subjective Cameras and Ekphrastic Writing: The Present and Absent Photograph in Mass Observation Annebella Pollen 6. Mass-Observation and Popular Politics in Worktown Jon Lawrence and David Thackeray (both University of Exeter UK) 7. 'On receiving your letter I promptly dreamed you a war dream the next night': Writing the Citizen in Mass-Observation's Dream Archive Charlotte Hallahan (University of East Anglia UK) 8. Self-reflexivity Class Consciousness and Social Change in Mass Observation Narratives Nick Hubble (Brunel University UK) 9. Perforating Event and Narrative Experience and Analysis: Beyond the Retro Eighties Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex UK) Conclusion: Presence and Absence in the Archive: the In/visibility of Mass Observation Writers Rose Lindsey (University of Southampton) Index
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