The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class

The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 0719075467
ISBN-13 : 9780719075469
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Book Synopsis The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class by : Simon Gunn

Download or read book The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class written by Simon Gunn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive "high" culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s. The history of urban bourgeois culture has been relatively unexplored and under-theorized compared to popular culture. This volume therefore represents a significant contribution both to the study of middle-class cultural forms and to an understanding of the relationship between culture and power. In particular, it argues for the importance of ritualized modes of social behavior in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city. As well as many original arguments, the book provides a clear and useful overview of the public cultures of Victorian "respectability." The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the areas of social history, cultural history, urban history, cultural studies, urban studies and the sociology of culture.


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