The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840–1914
Simon Gunn
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Paperback. Studies 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. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 332.
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-theorised 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 ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719075469
SKU
V9780719075469
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99-15
About Simon Gunn
Simon Gunn is Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester -- .
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