Titanic: Ship of Lost Illusions

A fresh exploration of the Titanic disaster reveals how class, gender, and racial prejudices shaped contemporary responses. 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 w