Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-Century EnglandCambridge University Press, 06.10.1994 - 242 Seiten This pioneering and highly original study explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men (Edwin Waugh and John Bright) who are taken as representative of what "working class" and "middle class" meant in England in the nineteenth century. The book points the way forward to a new history of democracy as an imagined entity. It represents a deepening of the author's engagement with "post-modernist" theory, in the process offering a critique of the conservatism and complacency of much academic history, particularly in Britain. |
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Democratic Subjects: The Self and the Social in Nineteenth-century England Patrick Joyce Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1994 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
agitation Almanack audience autodidact Britain chap character Chartism Cobden common concerned constitution contemporary cult culture democracy democratic described dialect diary discourse E. P. Thompson economic Edwin Waugh emphasis England English evident expression feeling fiction figure G. M. Trevelyan Gareth Stedman Jones gender Gladstone Gladstone's golden age heart historians human Ibid imaginary imagined independence industrial instance John Bright Joyce labour Lancashire language later leader less Liberal liberty literary literature living London Manchester Manchester Athenaeum means melodrama middle class moral narrative of improvement nation nature nineteenth century Pall Mall Gazette particular party phrenology political poor popular poverty present Quaker radical Rancière Reform religion religious representation rich Rochdale romance Samuel Bamford seen sense September 1848 Social History social imaginary society sorrow speech story struggle Tory Trevelyan understanding Victorian Visions W. T. Stead women workers
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