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Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain

Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain

Young, L.

Hardcover

Australia & OceaniaGeneral SociologyBritish History

ISBN10: 0333997468
ISBN13: 9780333997468
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: Dec 19 2002
Pages: 245
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.76 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
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.

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