Weeping Britannia : portrait of a nation in tears / Thomas Dixon.

"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 �...

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Main Author: Dixon, Thomas (Thomas M.) (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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505 0 |a Introduction: I Am a Rock -- PART I: PIETY -- 1. Looking for Margery -- 2. Marie Magdalen's Funeral Teares -- 3. Titus Andronicus: Ha, Ha, Ha! -- 4. The Actor, the Witch, and the Puritan -- PART II: ENTHUSIASM -- 5. Stop, Gabriel! -- 6. Four Hundred Pounds to Cry -- 7. The Man of Feeling -- 8. The French Revolution -- PART III: PATHOS -- 9. The Sanity of George III -- 10. Strange Blessing on the Nation -- 11. Little Nell Without Laughing -- 12. Damp Justice -- PART IV: RESTRAINT -- 13. Old Ladies and Other Animals -- 14. The 'If' Upper Lip -- 15. Patriotism is Not Enough -- 16. Thank-You for Coming Back to Me -- PART V: FEELINGS -- 17. Grief Observed -- 18. Ha'way the Lads! -- 19. The Thatcher Tears -- 20. Sensibility Regained -- Conclusion: I Am the Sea. 
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