Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears

by Thomas Dixon

Book Overview

There is a persistent myth about the British: that they 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 "national character", the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of the nation's past,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199676054
• ISBN13: 9780199676057
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"