
Clare V. J. Griffiths (ed.)
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Published online:
16 March 2015
Published in print:
07 April 2011
Online ISBN:
9780191804496
Print ISBN:
9780199579884
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Chapter
12 Being His Own Rabbit: Geoffrey Gorer and English Culture
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Pages
192–208
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Published:April 2011
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Mandler, Peter, 'Being His Own Rabbit: Geoffrey Gorer and English Culture', in Clare V. J. Griffiths, James J. Nott, and William Whyte (eds), Classes, Cultures, and Politics: Essays on British History for Ross McKibbin (Oxford , 2011; online edn, Oxford Academic, 16 Mar. 2015), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199579884.003.0012, accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter examines Geoffrey Gorer's much-cited work on English culture. Gorer presents a significant case-study because his work on the English, carried out mostly in the 1950s, centred presciently on topics that are now more interesting to historians than they were then to contemporaries — that is to say, he wrote not on sociological themes such as work, community and class, but on cultural and psychological themes such as love, sex, marriage, parenting, death, attitudes to religion and the supernatural, to law and order, and to ‘Englishness’.
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Social and Cultural History
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