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The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals - Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals - Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Albert D.
Pionke's book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class, and
public status in Victorian England. His analysis of various
discourses related to professionalization suggests that public
ritual flourished during the period, especially among the
burgeoning ranks of Victorian professions. As Pionke shows,
magazines, court cases, law books, manuals, and works by authors
that include William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hughes, Anthony
Trollope, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Elizabeth Barrett
Browning demonstrate the importance of ritual in numerous
professional settings. Individual chapters reconstruct the ritual
cultures of pre-professionalism provided to Oxbridge
undergraduates; of oath-taking in a wide range of professional
creation and promotion ceremonies; of the education, promotion, and
public practice of Victorian barristers; and of Victorian
Parliamentary elections. A final chapter considers the consequences
of rituals that fail through the lens of the Eglinton tournament.
The uneasy place of Victorian writers, who were both promoters of
and competitors with more established professionals, is considered
throughout. Pionke's book excavates Victorian professionals' vital
ritual culture, at the same time that its engagement with literary
representations of the professions reconstructs writers' unique
place in the zero-sum contest for professional status.
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