{"product_id":"gilded-youth-james-brooke-smith-9781789140668","title":"Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion and the British Public School","description":"The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the wilder shores of public-school life over the last three hundred years in \u003ci\u003eGilded Youth\u003c\/i\u003e. He uncovers armed mutinies in the late eighteenth century, a Victorian craze for flagellation, dandy-aesthetes of the 1920s, quasi-scientific discourse on masturbation, Communist scares in the 1930s, and the salacious tabloid scandals of the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Drawing on personal experience, extensive research, and public school representations in poetry, school slang, spy films, popular novels, and rock music, Brooke-Smith offers a fresh account of upper-class adolescence in Britain and the role of elite private education in shaping youth culture. He shows how this central British institution has inspired a counterculture of artists, intellectuals, and radicals--from Percy Shelley and George Orwell to Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson--who have rebelled against both the schools themselves and the wider society for which they stand. Written with verve and humor in the tradition of Owen Jones's \u003ci\u003eThe Establishment: And How They Get Away With It\u003c\/i\u003e, this highly original cultural history is an eye-opening leap over the hallowed iron gates of privilege--and perturbation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Brooke-Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1789140668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781789140668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Reaktion Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d","brand":"James Brooke-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44078665761023,"sku":"9781789140668","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d53eee7f-9a93-4861-94f6-3fd85c4f1406.jpg?v=1685476807","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gilded-youth-james-brooke-smith-9781789140668","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}