Imagining the Middle Class
Imagining the Middle Class

Author: Dror Wahrman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-07-13

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780521477109

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Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in underlying transformations of social structure - in this case industrialisation, which supposedly created and empowered the middle class - but rather in changing political configurations. Firmly grounded in a close reading of an extensive array of sources, and supported by comparative perspectives on France and America, the book offers a nuanced model for the interplay between social reality, politics, and the languages of class.

Middle
Middle

Author: Louis B. Wright

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01

Total Pages: 733

ISBN-13: 9780758174505

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Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858
Manners, Morals and Class in England, 1774-1858

Author: M. Morgan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1994-03-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0230379540

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This book analyses English social and occupational behavioural ideals from the courtesy book's demise in 1774 to the Medical Act's passage in 1858. Ideals from conduct and etiquette books mix gracefully with those displayed by professional groups, particularly medical practitioners, in an analysis that challenges conventional thinking about class and social change in early-industrial England. Dr Morgan's study will be essential reading for British historians, as well as for all those interested in how individuals establish personal identity and infuse confidence into human relations in an impersonal, urban society.

Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England
Reading Popular Romance in Early Modern England

Author: Lori Humphrey Newcomb

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780231123785

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This volume examines the proliferation of popular romances, their vilification by elite writers, and the ultimate opposition of "popular" and "literary" fiction. Using Robert Greene's "Pandosto" (1585), an Elizabethan prose romance that inspired Shakespeare's late play "The Winter's Tale" as a case study, Newcomb demonstrates that versions of the two texts repeatedly converge, resisting simple high/low division. Because Shakespeare's works are considered timeless literary achievements, critics have distanced his plays from their romance sources--a separation that until now has gone largely unquestioned. Newcomb challenges this assumption, providing a fascinating account of an early best-seller's incarnations over 250 years of literary history.

Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England
Pleasures and Pastimes in Tudor England

Author: Alison Sim

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0752475789

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How did the Tudors enjoy themselves? For the men and women of Tudor England there was, just as there is today, more to life than work. Four hundred years before the invention of television and radio, they did not lead boring or mundane lives. Indeed, in many ways the richness of Tudor entertainment shames us. While continuing the medieval tradition of tournament and pageantry, the Tudors also increasingly read and attended the theatre. Dancing and music were also popular, and were considered just as important as hunting and fighting for an ambitious Tudor's social skills. Church festivals provided the perfect excuse for revelry, and christenings and weddings were, as they are today, great social occasions. Here, Alison Sim explores the full range of entertainments enjoyed at that time covering everything from card games and bear baiting to interior design.

White, Male and Middle Class
White, Male and Middle Class

Author: Catherine Hall

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0745666825

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What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice? What are the connections between gender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness? Through a series of provocative and richly detailed essays, Catherine Hall explores these questions. She argues that feminism has opened up vital new questions for history and transformed familiar historical narratives. Class can no longer be understood outside of gender, or gender outside of class. But English identities have also been rooted in imperial power. White, Male and Middle Class explores the ways in which middle-class masculinities were rooted in conceptions of power over dependants - whether black or female.

The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer
The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer

Author: James L. Huston

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2015-05-04

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0807159190

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JAMES L. HUSTON is professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War; Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900; Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War ; and Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality.