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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunn, Simon, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

History.

England--Civilization--19th century.

England.

Civilization.

England--Civilization--20th century.

England--Social life and customs--19th century.

Manners and customs.

England--Social life and customs--20th century.

Popular culture--England--History--19th century.

Popular culture--England--History--20th century.

Middle class--England--History--19th century.

Middle class.

Middle class--England--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 207 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book explores the rise and fall of a distinctive "high" culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester from the mid-19th century to the 1880s. Urban bourgeois culture has been little-explored; this book is a significant contribution both to the study of middle-class cultural forms and to an understanding of the relationship between culture and power. He ranges widely across forms of cultural production and social practice, including architecture, urban design, dress and etiquette, social clubs, music, and civic parades and ceremonies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719057159

OCLC:

45878542