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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.

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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

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/9/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719075469, 978-0719075469
      ISBN10: 0719075467

      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

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