Dror Wahrman

Imagining the Middle Class

The Political Representation of Class in Britain, C.1780 1840

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Produktbeschreibung

The book shows how representations of society focused on a 'middle class' were infused from the French Revolution onwards with highly charged meanings, meanings that then changed radically under different political circumstances. The author uncovers the historically specific origins and the contingent logic of those characterizations of the middle class that we take today as given, from the narrative of its inexorable rise, through its key role in modern society, to its famous embodiment in domesticity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9780521477109
• ISBN-10: 0521477107
• Artikelnr.: 21640228

Inhaltsangabe

1. Imagining the 'middle class': an introduction
Part I. Against the Tide: Prelude to the 1790s: was the French Revolution a 'bourgeois revolution'?
2. The uses of 'middle class' language in the 1790s
3. Friends and foes of the 'middle class': the dialogic imagination
4. The political differentiation of social language: the debate on the triple assessment
Postlude to the 1790s: the uses of 'bourgeois revolution'
Part II. The Tug of War: 5. Taming the 'middle class'
6. The tug of war and its resolution
Part III. With the Tide: 7. The social construction of the middle class
8. The parallels across the Channel: a French aside
9. The debates on the Reform Bill: bowing to a new representation of the 'middle class'
10. Inventing the ever-rising 'middle class': the aftermath of 1832
11. 1832 and the 'middle class' conquest of the 'private sphere'
Epilogue.