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The rise of respectable society : a social history of Victorian Britain 1830-1900
La 4e de couverture indique : "In the fifty years since the appearance of G.M. Young's brilliant survey, "Victorian England: Portrait of an Age", a mass of new research from new perspectives has entirely changed the landscape of the Victorian era. "The Rise of Respectable So...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The rise of respectable society : a social history of Victorian Britain : 1830-1900 / F. M. L. Thompson |
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London :
Fontana press
, C 1988 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (382 p.) |
| Collection : | The Fontana social history of Britain since 1700 general editor, F. M. L. Thompson |
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| Résumé : | La 4e de couverture indique : "In the fifty years since the appearance of G.M. Young's brilliant survey, "Victorian England: Portrait of an Age", a mass of new research from new perspectives has entirely changed the landscape of the Victorian era. "The Rise of Respectable Society" offers a new map of this territory as revealed by close empirical studies of marriage, the family, domestic life, work, leisure and entertainment. In doing so it rescues the middle and working classes from the rigidity of the class stereotypes by which they have been frequently portrayed. But it also argues that the diversity of cultures within those classes was in fact the essence of Victorian society, and that as each class developed its notions of self-respect, so it adhered ever more closely to the classes above and below it, thus avoiding the revolutionary fractures which appeared in many other European countries during this period." |
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| Historique des publications : | Réimpression : 1989 |
| Bibliographie : | Bibliogr. p. 363-370. Index |
| ISBN : | 0-00-686157-1 978-0-00-729152-6 978-0-00-686036-5 |