Overview
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.
- | Author: L. Young
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Dec 19, 2002
- | Number of Pages: 245 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0333997468
- | ISBN-13: 9780333997468
