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The making of English popular culture / edited by John Storey.

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"The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century. While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popul...

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Other Authors: Storey, John, 1950- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Directions in cultural history (London, England)
Subjects:
Popular culture > England > History > 19th century.
England > Social life and customs > 19th century.
England > Social conditions > 19th century.
England > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Social change > England > History > 19th century.
Technological innovations > Social aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Urbanization > Social aspects > England > History > 19th century.
Power (Social sciences) > England > History > 19th century.
Intellectual life.
Manners and customs.
Popular culture.
Power (Social sciences)
Social change.
Social conditions.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Urbanization > Social aspects.
England.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: making popular culture / John Storey
  • 1."The man of penetration and the girl of capacity" : negotiating power in erotic culture / Jenny Skipp
  • 2. "But it's more than a game. It's an institution" : cricket, class and Victorian Britain's imperial Englishness / Claire Westall
  • 3. Drivel for dregs : perceptions of class, "race," and gender in British music hall, 1850-1914 / David Huxley and David James
  • 4. Reading historical images : class and gender in nineteenth-century photographs of Wigan of pit brow women / Sarah Edge
  • 5. Inventing the Victorian boy : S.O. Beeton's In The Boy's Own Magazine / Jochen Petzold
  • 6. Accept no substitutions! : Advertising, gender and "race" in constructions of the consumer in the nineteenth century / Allison Cavanagh
  • 7. Liminal seaside? : working-class tourism in the nineteenth century / Robert Troschitz
  • 8. Shocking readers : the genres of Victorian popular fiction, the classes, and the book market / Ralf Schneider
  • 9. Picturing adventure : popular fiction, illustration and the British Empire, 1875-1914 / Ralph Crane and Lisa Fletcher
  • 10. "For the benefit of old boys, young boys, odd boys generally, and even girls" : the irresistible rise of the British comic, 1884-1900 / Robert Shail
  • 11.The spectacle of speech : Victorian popular lectures and mass print culture / Anne-Julia Zwierlein
  • 12. "You ought to see my phonograph" : the visual wonder of recorded sound (1877-1900) / Elodie A Roy
  • 13. Class and the invention of tradition : the cases of Christmas, football, and folksong / John Storey
  • 14. Ripping yarns : capturing (not catching) and constructing the myth of Jack the Ripper in nineteenth-century London / John Paul Green.

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