The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class: Ritual and Authority in the English Industrial City 1840-1914

by Simon Gunn

Book Overview

The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the creation of a distinctive 'high' culture in the industrial cities of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century and its incipient decline from the 1880s.

The history of urban bourgeois culture has been relatively unexplored and under-theorised compared to popular culture. This volume therefore represents a significant contribution both to the study of middle-class...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719075467
• ISBN13: 9780719075469
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"