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Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century: America, Australia and Britain
Linda Young
Hardcover. Palgrave Macmillan 2003-03.
ISBN 9780333997468
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Publisher description
Drawing on expressive and material culture, 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. In this work, Linda Young 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.
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