Research Catalog

Title

Faking it : the sentimentalisation of modern society / edited by Digby Anderson & Peter Mullen.

Publication

[London] : Social Affairs Unit, c1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Anderson, Digby C., 1944-
• Mullen, Peter, 1942-

Description

viii, 217 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

[Publication ; no. 76]

Uniform Title

Publication (Social Affairs Unit) ; 76.

Subject

• Sentimentalism > Social aspects > Great Britain
• Sentimentalism > Social aspects > United States

Note

• Series statement from book cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The idea of a fake society : introduction and summary / Digby Anderson and Peter Mullen -- Life before health : against the sentimentalising of medicine / Bruce Charlton -- Evading personal responsibility : the sentimentalisation of social policy / Nicholas Capaldi -- Sweetness and light in schools : the sentimentalisation of children / Bruce S. Cooper and Dennis O'Keeffe -- Back to a simple and pure nature : sentimentality and the environmental movement / Jo Kwong -- All feelings and no doctrine : the sentimentalisation of religion / Peter Mullen -- Faking emotion : sentimentality in modern literature / Ian Robinson -- The pity of self-pity : the sentimentalisation of music / Balint Vazsonyi -- Self-indulgence, childishness and puritanism : the sentimentalisation of civilized eating / Digby Anderson -- All Venusians now : sentimentality in the media / Mark Steyn -- Diana, queen of hearts : sentimentality personified and canonised / Anthony O'Hear -- The corruption of Christianity : the history and origins of sentimentality / Lucy Sullivan.

ISBN

0907631754

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library