The public culture of the Victorian middle class looks at the
creation of a distinctive "high" culture in the industrial cities
of Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century
and its incipient decline from the 1880s.
The history of urban bourgeois culture has been relatively
unexplored and under-theorized compared to popular culture. This
volume therefore represents a significant contribution both to the
study of middle-class cultural forms and to an understanding of the
relationship between culture and power. In particular, it argues
for the importance of ritualized modes of social behavior in
understanding the construction of authority in the
nineteenth-century city. As well as many original arguments, the
book provides a clear and useful overview of the public cultures of
Victorian "respectability."The book will be of interest to scholars
and students in the areas of social history, cultural history,
urban history, cultural studies, urban studies and the sociology of
culture.
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