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middle-class identity in Britain, 1800-1940
Introduction: history, culture and the middle classes / Alan Kidd and David Nicholls -- The public sphere, modernity and consumption: new perspectives on the history of the English middle class / Simon Gunn -- 'The Florence of the north'? the civic culture of Liverpool in the early nineteenth century / Arline Wilson -- 'A Christian and civilised land': the British middle class and the civilising mission, 1820-42 / Alison Twells -- Homosociality and middle-class identity in early Victorian patronage of the arts / Dianne Sachko Macleod -- The bourgeois body: civic portraiture, public men and the appearance of class power in Manchester, 1838-50 / Louise Purbrick -- 'Thoroughly embued with the spirit of ancient Greece': symbolism and space in Victorian civic culture / Kate Hill -- The middle class, modernity and the provincial city: Manchester, c. 1840-80 / Simon Gunn -- Middle-class 'culture', law and gender identity: married women's property legislation in Scotland, c. 1850-1920 / Craig Young -- Mrs Pooter's purchase: lower-middle-class consumerism and the sales, 1870-1914 / Christopher P. Hosgood -- The English weakness? gender, satire and 'moral manliness' in the lower middle class, 1870-1920 / A. James Hammerton -- Gender, consumer culture and the middle-class male, 1918-39 / Jill Greenfield, Sean O'Connell and Chris Reid -- An outbreak of allodoxia? operatic amateurs and middle-class musical taste between wars / John Lowerson.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-217) and index.