Gender, civic culture and consumerism : middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940 /

Main Author: Kidd, Alan, 1947-
Other Authors: Nicholls, David,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK New York: New York: Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martinʹs Press, 1999
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245 1 0 |a Gender, civic culture and consumerism :  |b middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940 /  |c edited by Alan Kidd and David Nicholls 
260 |a Manchester, UK  |b Manchester University Press  |c 1999  |a New York:  |a New York:  |b Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martinʹs Press, 
300 |a xi, 223 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm 
500 |a Contents: 1. Introduction: history, culture and the middle classes, Alan Kidd and David Nicholls-- 2. The public sphere, modernity and consumption: new perspectives on the history of the English middle class, Simon Gunn -- PART ONE: GENDER, IDENTITY AND CIVIC CULTURE Prelude 3. ʹThe Florence of the Northʹ? The civic culture of Liverpool in the early nineteenth century, Arline Wilson -- 4. ʹA Christian and civilised landʹ: the British middle class and the civilising mission, 1820-42, Alison Twells -- 5. Homosociality and middle-class identity in early Victorian patronage of the arts, Dianne Sachko Macleod -- 6. The bourgeois body: civic portraiture, public men and the appearance of class power in Manchester, 1838-50, Louise Purbrick -- 7. ʹThoroughly embued with the spirit of ancient Greeceʹ: symbolism and space in Victorian civic culture, Kate Hill -- 8. The middle class, modernity and the provincial city: Manchester, c. 1840-80, Simon Gunn --- PART TWO: GENDER, IDENTITY AND CONSUMER CULTURE Prelude -- 9. Middle-class ʹcultureʹ, law and gender identity: married womenʹs property legislation in Scotland, c. 1850-1920, Craig Young-- 10. Mrs Pooterʹs purchase: lower-middle-class consumerism and the sales, 1870-1914, Christopher P. Hosgood --11. The English weakness? Gender, satire and ʹmoral manlinessʹ in the lower middle class, 1870-1920, A. James Hammerton --12. Gender, consumer culture and the middle-class male, 1918-39, Jill Greenfield, Sean OʹConnell and Chris Reid -- 13. An outbreak of allodoxia? Operatic amateurs and middle-class musical taste between the wars, John Lowerson 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-217) and index 
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650 0 |a Social role  |x History  |z Great Britain 
650 0 |a Consumption (Economics)  |x History  |z Great Britain 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x Social conditions 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x Social conditions 
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