Lower Middle Class In Britain 1870 1914
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Author | : Geoffrey Crossick |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2021-02-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317239903 |
First published in 1977. This book records the emergence of a lower middle class in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Victorian society had always contained a marginal middle class of shopkeepers and small businessmen, but in the closing decades of the nineteenth century the growth of white-collar salaried occupations created a new and distinctive force in the social structure. These essays look at the place of the lower middle class within British society and examine its ideals and values. Some essays concentrate on occupational groups – clerks and shopkeepers – while others focus on aspects of lower middle class life – religion, housing and jingoism. This title will be of interest to students of history.
Author | : Geoffrey Crossick |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Classes moyennes - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire |
ISBN | : 9780856643484 |
Author | : John Lowerson |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Middle class |
ISBN | : 9780719046513 |
This book examines the phenomena which explain the boom in sport among the middle classes in late Victorian England. The author focuses on the extent to which sport became an agent of the development of the middle classes and an instrument of their self-definition. The book does not set out to explain the making of the English middle classes; rather, it examines a significant part of that making.
Author | : John Benson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2016-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317268792 |
First published in 1985. Too often aspects of working-class life have been treated as distinct and separate. The contributors to this volume are aware of the dangers of such atomisation and have attempted to bring together a collection of studies which add to our knowledge of life in that time. The examinations of family, health, work, leisure and criminal trends form the basis of this work, and suggest that the everyday lives and values of the working-class were even more varied, creative and complex than is generally believed. This title will be of interest to students of history.
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Release | : 1979 |
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ISBN | : 9780709901099 |
Author | : Nicola Bishop |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350064378 |
Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms across literature, film, television and more, Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day, tackling a number of pressing, consistent concerns such as automation, commuting, and the search for a life/work balance. Above all, this book brings together ideas about class, nationhood, and gender, demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday. Aimed at undergraduate, postgraduates and scholars working in media and social history, literature, popular culture, cultural studies and sociology, Lower-Middle-Class Nation represents a new direction in cultural histories of work, labour, and leisure.
Author | : Jonathan Rose |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300148356 |
Which books did the British working classes read--and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education? How did they educate themselves? What was their level of cultural literacy: how much did they know about politics, science, history, philosophy, poetry, and sexuality? Who were the proletarian intellectuals, and why did they pursue the life of the mind? These intriguing questions, which until recently historians considered unanswerable, are addressed in this book. Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources, The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes tracks the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. It offers a new method for cultural historians--an "audience history" that recovers the responses of readers, students, theatergoers, filmgoers, and radio listeners. Jonathan Rose provides an intellectual history of people who were not expected to think for themselves, told from their perspective. He draws on workers’ memoirs, oral history, social surveys, opinion polls, school records, library registers, and newspapers. Through its novel and challenging approach to literary history, the book gains access to politics, ideology, popular culture, and social relationships across two centuries of British working-class experience.
Author | : J.F.C. Harrison |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136116524 |
Drawing heavily on the recollections and literature of the people themselves, Harrison places late Victorian Britain firmly in its social and political context.
Author | : Josephine Sharoni |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-07-03 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9004336583 |
Eschewing the all-pervading contextual approach to literary criticism, this book takes a Lacanian view of several popular British fantasy texts of the late 19th century such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, revealing the significance of the historical context; the advent of a modern democratic urban society in place of the traditional agrarian one. Moreover, counter-intuitively it turns out that fantasy literature is analogous to modern Galilean science in its manipulation of the symbolic thereby changing our conception of reality. It is imaginary devices such as vampires and ape-men, which in conjunction with Lacanian theory say something additional of the truth about – primarily sexual – aspects of human subjectivity and culture, repressed by the contemporary hegemonic discourses.
Author | : David Cannadine |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231096676 |
Although politicians in Britain are now calling for a "classless society," can one conclude, as do many scholars, that class does not matter anymore? Cannadine uncovers the meanings of class for such disparate figures as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Margaret Thatcher and identifies the moments when opinion shifted, such as the aftermath of the French Revolution and the rise of the Labour Party in the early twentieth century.