| Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century England Contributor(s): Joyce, Patrick (Author), Patrick, Joyce (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521448026 ISBN-13: 9780521448024 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1994 Annotation: This history is the story of two men, and of the stories they and others told in order that it might be known why they were. It is a history of identity, 'the self' and social identity, and the realm of 'the social' itself in which identity is located. It explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men who might be taken as representative of what 'working class' and 'middle class' meant in England in the nineteenth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 942.081 |
| LCCN: 93-37741 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.02" W x 8.98" (0.78 lbs) 260 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This pioneering and highly original study explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men (Edwin Waugh and John Bright) who are taken as representative of what working class and middle class meant in England in the nineteenth century. The book points the way forward to a new history of democracy as an imagined entity. It represents a deepening of the author's engagement with post-modernist theory, in the process offering a critique of the conservatism and complacency of much academic history, particularly in Britain. |
