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

Drawing on expressive and material culture, Linda 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.Read More

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  • 0333997468
  • 9780333997468
  • Linda Young
  • 19 December 2002
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 240
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