Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, C.1780 1840

by Dror Wahrman

Book Overview

This book explores the origins of the influential view of modern society that places a middle class at its center, as it developed in Britain during the so-called Industrial Revolution. Using a wider variety of sources and closer methods of textual analysis than previous studies of languages of class, the author develops a nuanced model for the interplay of social reality and social language. He demonstrates that a middle class-based language of social description did not simply reflect changes in social structure, but was rather the outcome of political circumstances in a period of radical political change.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521471273
• ISBN13: 9780521471275
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"