Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Pionke¿s book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class and public status in Victorian England. Through analysis of magazines, court cases, law books, manuals and works by authors that include William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hughes, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Pionke¿s book excavates Victorian professionals' vital ritual culture and writers¿ place in the zero-sum contest for professional status.
Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Pionke¿s book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class and public status in Victorian England. Through analysis of magazines, court cases, law books, manuals and works by authors that include William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hughes, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Pionke¿s book excavates Victorian professionals' vital ritual culture and writers¿ place in the zero-sum contest for professional status.
Albert D. Pionke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA and is author of Plots of Opportunity (2004) and editor of Victorian Secrecy (2010).
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Citations Introduction 1 Education as a Rite of Privilege: Oxbridge Preprofessionalism 2 Swearing Your Way to Sacred Status: Oath Taking in Professional Creation Ceremonies 3 Litigious Prestige: Rituals of Law as Fact and Fiction 4 Rituals of Election: Contesting Parliamentary Authority 5 A Ritual Failure: The Eglinton Tournament in Context Epilogue: Learning Professionalism for Today Bibliography Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Citations Introduction 1 Education as a Rite of Privilege: Oxbridge Preprofessionalism 2 Swearing Your Way to Sacred Status: Oath Taking in Professional Creation Ceremonies 3 Litigious Prestige: Rituals of Law as Fact and Fiction 4 Rituals of Election: Contesting Parliamentary Authority 5 A Ritual Failure: The Eglinton Tournament in Context Epilogue: Learning Professionalism for Today Bibliography Index
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