Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, C.1780-1840Cambridge University Press, 13/07/1995 - 428 من الصفحات Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in underlying transformations of social structure - in this case industrialisation, which supposedly created and empowered the middle class - but rather in changing political configurations. Firmly grounded in a close reading of an extensive array of sources, and supported by comparative perspectives on France and America, the book offers a nuanced model for the interplay between social reality, politics, and the languages of class. |
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Imagining the middle class an introduction | 1 |
AGAINST THE TIDE | 19 |
was the French Revolution a bourgeois revolution? | 21 |
The uses of middleclass language in the 1790S | 31 |
the legacies of the eighteenth century | 60 |
Friends and foes of the middle class the dialogic imagination | 74 |
the view from above | 83 |
The language of interests | 90 |
the closure of options | 200 |
The transformation of middleclass virtues | 214 |
WITH THE TIDE | 221 |
The social construction of the middle class | 223 |
from mutual estrangement to happy union | 227 |
an imagined constituency | 245 |
The parallels across the Channel a French aside | 273 |
the comparative perspective | 289 |
the road not taken | 96 |
The political differentiation of social language the debate on the triple assessment 17971798 | 108 |
The language of middle class in diverging parliamentary hearings | 125 |
What was so special about the triple assessment? | 139 |
the uses of bourgeois revolution | 145 |
THE TUG OF WAR | 155 |
Taming the middle class | 157 |
The pillar of the social and political order | 169 |
The tug of war and its resolution | 184 |
The heyday of public opinion | 190 |
The debates on the Reform Bill bowing to a new representation of the middle class | 298 |
Inventing the everrising middle class the aftermath of 1832 | 328 |
The political triumph of the middle class | 333 |
the making of the middleclass narrative | 352 |
1832 and the middleclass conquest of the private sphere | 377 |
Middle class and publicprivate masculinefeminine before 1832 | 381 |
Middleclass domesticity goes public | 400 |
Epilogue | 409 |
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2nd edn argument aristocracy asserted Black Dwarf bourgeois bourgeoisie Britain British Brougham Burke Cambridge category of middle classe moyenne classes of society commercial common consequence constitution context corn laws debate decade December discussion domestic E. P. Thompson economic Edinburgh Review eighteenth century England English essay example fact France French Revolution Friends of Peace historians History Idem industrial Industrial Revolution J. G. A. Pocock January John landed language of middle Letter liberal liberty London London Corresponding Society Lord lower classes Mackinnon Mackintosh middle class middle orders middle ranks middle-class idiom moderate Morning Chronicle notion of middle opposition parliament Parliamentary Reform particular Peterloo Pitt Pitt's political middle Poor Man's Guardian present pro-ministerial public opinion quoted radical Reform Bill representation rhetoric rich role social change social language social middle social scheme speech taxation taxes Thomas Thompson Tory triple assessment virtues Whig William writing Wyvill