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The Making of English Popular Culture
About this book
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 popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. Particularly significant are the technological changes that made the production of new forms of culture possible and the concentration of people in urban areas that created significant audiences for this new culture.
Consisting of fourteen original chapters that cover diverse topics ranging from seaside holidays and the invention of Christmas tradition, to advertising, music and popular fiction, the collection aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between culture and power, as explored through areas such as 'race', ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender. It also aims to encourage within cultural studies a renewed historical sense when engaging critically with popular culture by exploring the historical conditions surrounding the existence of popular texts and practices.
Written in a highly accessible style The Making of English Popular Culture is an ideal text for undergraduates studying cultural and media studies, literary studies, cultural history and visual culture.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of Contributors
- Introduction Making popular culture
- 1 ‘The man of penetration and the girl of capacity' Negotiating power in erotic culture
- 2 ‘But it's more than a game. It's an institution.’ Cricket, class and Victorian Britain's imperial Englishness
- 3 ‘Drivel for dregs' Perceptions of class, race and gender in British music hall, 1850–1914
- 4 Reading historical photographs Class and gender in nineteenth-century images of Wigan pit brow women
- 5 Inventing the Victorian boy S.O. Beeton's The Boy's Own Magazine
- 6 Accept no substitutions! Advertising, gender and ‘race' in constructions of the consumer in the nineteenth century
- 7 Liminal seaside? Working-class tourism in the nineteenth century
- 8 Shocking readers The genres of Victorian popular fiction, the classes and the book markets
- 9 Picturing adventure Popular fiction, illustration, and the British Empire, 1875–1914
- 10 ‘For the benefit of old boys, young boys, odd boys generally, and even girls' The irresistible rise of the British comic, 1884–1900
- 11 The spectacle of speech Victorian popular lectures and mass print culture
- 12 ‘You ought to see my phonograph' The visual wonder of recorded sound (1877–1900)
- 13 Class and the invention of tradition The cases of Christmas, football, and folksong
- 14 Ripping yards Capturing (not catching) and constructing the myth of Jack the Ripper in nineteenth-century London
- Index