Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England

by Robert D. Storch

Book Overview

First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory workers and sections of the lower middle classes in the nineteenth century. It explores a range of factors which contributed to changes in custom, including the effects of urbanisation, conflict over the use of public land, new conceptions of public order, the decline of the oral tradition and the growth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138665452
• ISBN13: 9781138665453
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"