Description

Book Synopsis
Studies 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. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. The industrial city, the middle class and bourgeois culture
2. Building the city
3. The social uses of public space
4. Clubland: the private in the public
5. Spiritual culture
6. Music and the constitution of high culture
7. The rites of civic culture
Epilogue: the decline of provincial bourgeois culture

The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class

Product form

£18.99

Includes FREE delivery

RRP £19.99 – you save £1.00 (5%)

Order before 4pm tomorrow for delivery by Mon 30 Mar 2026.

A Paperback by Simon Gunn

Out of stock


    View other formats and editions of The Public Culture of the Victorian Middle Class by Simon Gunn

    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 8/9/2007 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719075469, 978-0719075469
    ISBN10: 0719075467
    Also in:
    Traditional and folk music European history

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Studies 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. This book argues for the importance of ritualised modes of social behaviour in understanding the construction of authority in the nineteenth-century city.

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    1. The industrial city, the middle class and bourgeois culture
    2. Building the city
    3. The social uses of public space
    4. Clubland: the private in the public
    5. Spiritual culture
    6. Music and the constitution of high culture
    7. The rites of civic culture
    Epilogue: the decline of provincial bourgeois culture

    Recently viewed products

    © 2026 Book Curl

      • American Express
      • Apple Pay
      • Diners Club
      • Discover
      • Google Pay
      • Maestro
      • Mastercard
      • PayPal
      • Shop Pay
      • Union Pay
      • Visa

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account