Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain

by Linda Young

Drawing on expressive and material culture, Young shows that money was not enough to make the genteel middle class. It required exquisite self-control and the right cultural capital to perform ritual etiquette and present oneself confidently, yet modestly. She argues that genteel culture was not merely derivative, but a re-working of aristocratic standards in the context of the middle class necessity to work. Visible throughout the English-speaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333997468
• ISBN13: 9780333997468
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"