I know where Im going: historical materialist criticism and the representation of home in British conservative romanticism

Paul Dave

Chapter 26 in Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society, 2024, pp 413-426 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter takes the film I Know Where I am Going (1944) by British film makers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger in order to address the idea of ‘home’ in British romantic culture along with a complex knot of associated themes, including enclosure, exposure, homelessness, wandering and dwelling, which together condense some of the fundamental political contentions in cultures of modernity. It seeks to open up the film to a historical materialist account of the longue durée of capitalism and class in order to challenge the subsumption of the history of Scottish primitive accumulation, a sorrowful history of houses destroyed and homes barred, within Celtic ‘glamour’ and the enchantments of British romantic conservatism.

Keywords: Asian Studies; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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