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Chapter six: High and Popular culture: loci communes and growing national interests

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Literature can be considered as a “lieu de memoire” in the sense that it shapes collective memory and offers a repertoire of stories about the past. Traces of historical events or figures were more or less developed in 18th C literary works. This form of hindsight builds both national and transnational traditions. Antiquity still provided the main models but national histories became more and more influential during the period. British drama was well known for its English plays. On the continent, this interest in national history was considered as an exception before it was transposed to other traditions at first as a means to renew public interest, and at a second stage to promote other national traditions. History as a guide of public life and a repertoire of great passions appears as the prerogative of high culture. The examples it offered were shared between members of the same privileged background. However a growing interest in popular culture was also justified by its capacity to depict the manners of the past and to recapture lost traditions. Hence, History became less and less a distinctive feature and led to more fuzzy boundaries in which (oral) popular culture and collective memories were recuperated and assimilated by written and scholarly works .
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hal-04377267 , version 1 (07-01-2024)

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Fiona Mcintosh-Varjabédian. Chapter six: High and Popular culture: loci communes and growing national interests. Patrick H. Hutton. A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth Century, Bloomsbury Academic, pp.112-128, 2022, The Cultural Histories Series, 9781474273480. ⟨hal-04377267⟩
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