A sense of their duty : middle-class formation in Victorian Ontario towns / Andrew C. Holman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Ontario--History--19th century--Case studies.

Middle class.

Social values--Ontario--Case studies.

Social values.

Goderich (Ont. : Township)--Social conditions--19th century.

Goderich (Ont. : Township).

Galt (Cambridge, Ont.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Galt (Cambridge, Ont.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 243 pages. : illustrations)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca, [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What did it mean to be middle class in late nineteenth-century Ontario? How did the members of the middle class define themselves? Though simple, these questions have escaped the attention of social historians in recent writing about Canada. The Victorian middle class, referred to as the backbone of economic change, the motor of political reform, and the source of one set of moral standards, has eluded systematic study. A Sense of Their Duty corrects this and reconstructs the identities that middle-class Victorians made for themselves in an era of economic change.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables, Maps, and Illustrations

Preface

Prologue: Approaching the Victorian Middle Class in Canadian History

Work, Authority, and the Middle Class in Victorian Ontario

Boosters, Bluster, and Bonding: Enterprise and Middle-Class Formation

Honour and Authority: The Professional Middle Class

“Getting There”: Situating White-Collar Workers

Erecting a Moral Order, Developing Class Community

Casting Society: Voluntary Organizations and the Development of Class Community

A Community Concern: Victorian Temperance Reform

Producing and Reproducing the Middle-Class “Self”

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-238) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85830-0

9786612858307

0-7735-6808-5

OCLC:

929121363