Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain by Young, L.

Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333997468)

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Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain by Young, L.

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

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Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain by Young, L.

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

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: L. Young
ISBN-10: 0333997468
ISBN-13: 9780333997468
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/19/2002
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.76w x 0.72d
By L. Young
By L. Young
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LINDA YOUNG is a historian by discipline and a curator by trade, teaching Cultural Heritage Management at the University of Canberra. As a scholar and a heritage practitioner, she is especially interested in the intersection of the history and the material culture of domestic life, as expressed in feminist history and historic houses.

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