Gender, civic culture, and consumerism : middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940 / edited by Alan Kidd and David Nicholls.
Contributor(s): Kidd, Alan J
| Nicholls, David.
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BookPublisher: Manchester ; New York, NY : New York, NW [sic] : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999Description: xi, 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 071905267X; 0719056764.Subject(s): Middle class -- Great Britain -- History | City and town life -- Great Britain -- History | Sex role -- Great Britain -- History | Social role -- Great Britain -- History | Consumption (Economics) -- Great Britain -- History | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 305.55094
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The essays in this volume deal chiefly with issues of class and gender which are seen as mutually constitutive of social identity. Historical interest in the idea of modernity is represented in studies of socio-spatial relations of urban culture and in the emergence of gender-laden conceptions of the modern suburban culture of domesticity and consumerism. Art and art patronage are dissected as cultural motifs suggestive both of gender and rank. The detailed cultural aesthetic of the middle classes is explored from the learned societies of the late 18th century to the amateur operatic societies of the 20th-century suburbs. A key focus is the changing and uncertain representation of masculine identities in relation to class.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. vii)
- Notes on contributors (p. ix)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- 1 Introduction: history, culture and the middle classes (p. 1)
- 2 The public sphere, modernity and consumption: new perspectives on the history of the English middle class (p. 12)
- Part 1 Gender, Identity and Civic Culture
- Prelude (p. 31)
- 3 'The Florence of the North'? The civic culture of Liverpool in the early nineteenth century (p. 34)
- 4 'A Christian and civilised land': the British middle class and the civilising mission, 1820-42 (p. 47)
- 5 Homosociality and middle-class identity in early Victorian patronage of the arts (p. 65)
- 6 The bourgeois body: civic portraiture, public men and the appearance of class power in Manchester, 1838-50 (p. 81)
- 7 'Thoroughly embued with the spirit of ancient Greece': symbolism and space in Victorian civic culture (p. 99)
- 8 The middle class, modernity and the provincial city: Manchester, c.1840-80 (p. 112)
- Part 2 Gender, Identity and Consumer Culture
- Prelude (p. 129)
- 9 Middle-class 'culture', law and gender identity: married women's property legislation in Scotland, c. 1850-1920 (p. 133)
- 10 Mrs Pooter's purchase: lower-middle-class consumerism and the sales, 1870-1914 (p. 146)
- 11 The English weakness? Gender, satire and 'moral manliness' in the lower middle class, 1870-1920 (p. 164)
- 12 Gender, consumer culture and the middle-class male, 1918-39 (p. 183)
- 13 An outbreak of allodoxia? Operatic amateurs and middle-class musical taste between the wars (p. 198)
- Further reading (p. 213)
- Index (p. 219)