The public culture of the Victorian middle class : ritual and authority and the English industrial city, 1840-1914 / Simon Gunn

By: Gunn, SimonContributor(s): Gunn, SimonMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd | :E/261, Shastri Nagar DelhiPublication details: USA :Martin's Press 2007Description: x, 207 pages 24 cmISBN: 9780719075469Subject(s): Social Sciences | Groups of people | Popular culture -- England -- History -- 20th century | Middle class -- England -- History -- 20th century | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | Civilization | Popular cultureDDC classification: 305.550 GUN
Contents:
Acknowledgements1. The industrial city, the middle class and bourgeois culture2. Building the city3. The social uses of public space4. Clubland: the private in the public5. Spiritual culture6. Music and the constitution of high culture7. The rites of civic cultureEpilogue: the decline of provincial bourgeois culture -
Summary: 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
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Acknowledgements1. The industrial city, the middle class and bourgeois culture2. Building the city3. The social uses of public space4. Clubland: the private in the public5. Spiritual culture6. Music and the constitution of high culture7. The rites of civic cultureEpilogue: the decline of provincial bourgeois culture -

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

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