Titanic : ship of lost illusions : a floating microcosm of Edwardian society
Brown, Kevin, 1961-2025
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When it set sail on its ill-fated maiden voyage, RMS Titanic was a marvel of modern technology and the latest in luxury, providing a gilded setting and false sense of security for its passengers to act out their imagined ideal lives in a reflection of pre-First World War society. When disaster struck in the form of an iceberg four days into its maiden voyage, that society was frozen in a moment of time, revealing class, gender and racial discrimination that pervaded contemporary social attitudes. Kevin Brown takes a fresh approach in exploring the social attitudes to class, manliness, heroism and cowardice, social redemption, the proper role of women and the social, religious and racial prejudices revealed by the sinking. He re-evaluates the code of women and children first, revealing how attitudes glorifying manliness influenced the behaviour of passengers and crew during the sinking.
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Author:
Brown, Kevin, 1961-, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2025.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781036119720 (hbk)
Dewey class:
303.485
LC class:
HV553
Language:
English
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BRN:
4151977
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