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Gender, civic culture and consumerism : middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940
- Title
- Gender, civic culture and consumerism : middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940 / edited by Alan Kidd and David Nicholls.
- Publication
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xi, 223 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940
- Subjects
- Great Britain > Social conditions > 19th century
- Consumption (Economics) > Great Britain > History
- Social role > Great Britain > History
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Great Britain > Social conditions > 20th century
- Sex role > Great Britain > History
- Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century
- Middle class > Great Britain > History
- City and town life > Great Britain > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : history, culture and the middle classes / Alan Kidd and David Nicholls -- The public sphere, modernity and consumption : new perspectives on the history of the English middle class / Simon Gunn -- 'The Florence of the north'? the civic culture of Liverpool in the early nineteenth century / Arline Wilson -- 'A Christian and civilised land' : the British middle class and the civilising mission, 1820-42 / Alison Twells -- Homosociality and middle-class identity in early Victorian patronage of the arts / Dianne Sachko Macleod -- The bourgeois body : civic portraiture, public men and the appearance of class power in Manchester, 1838-50 / Louise Purbrick -- 'Thoroughly embued with the spirit of ancient Greece' : symbolism and space in Victorian civic culture / Kate Hill -- The middle class, modernity and the provincial city : Manchester, c. 1840-80 / Simon Gunn -- Middle-class 'culture', law and gender identity : married women's property legislation in Scotland, c. 1850-1920 / Craig Young -- Mrs Pooter's purchase : lower-middle-class consumerism and the sales, 1870-1914 / Christopher P. Hosgood -- The English weakness? gender, satire and 'moral manliness' in the lower middle class, 1870-1920 / A. James Hammerton -- Gender, consumer culture and the middle-class male, 1918-39 / Jill Greenfield, Sean O'Connell and Chris Reid -- An outbreak of allodoxia? operatic amateurs and middle-class musical taste between wars / John Lowerson.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-2339
- ISBN
- 071905267X (hb)
- 0719056764 (pb)
- LCCN
- 99029253
- OCLC
- 41299261
- Title
- Gender, civic culture and consumerism : middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940 / edited by Alan Kidd and David Nicholls.
- Imprint
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217) and index.
- Added Author
- Kidd, Alan J.Nicholls, David, 1948-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-2339