| Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain 2003 Edition Contributor(s): Young, L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333997468 ISBN-13: 9780333997468 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 305 |
| LCCN: 2002074993 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.76" W x 8.98" (0.97 lbs) 245 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Australian - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 world in the 1780s -1830s and onward, genteel culture reveals continuities often obscured by studies based entirely on national frameworks. |
