Imagining the Middle Class the Political Representation of Class in Britain, C. 1780-1840
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
- Publish date: 06/01/1995
Description:
This book explores the origins of the influential view of modern society that places a "middle class" at its center, as it developed in Britain during the so-called "Industrial Revolution." Using a wider variety of sources and closer methods of textual analysis than previous studies of languages of class, the author develops a nuanced model for the interplay of social reality and social language. He demonstrates that a "middle class"-based language of social description did not simply reflect changes in social structure, but was rather the outcome of political circumstances in a period of radical political change.
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