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DEMOCRATIC SUBJECTS
THE SELF AND THE SOCIAL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

By:

Patrick Joyce

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0521448026

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9780521448024

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

6 October, 1994

Pages:

260

Description:

A controversial study of class and social identity in nineteenth-century England.

Synopsis:

This pioneering and original study explores critically the nature of class identity by looking at the formation and influence of two men (Edwin Waugh and John Bright) who might be taken as representative of what 'working class' and 'middle class' meant in England in the nineteenth century. The two studies of individuals are complemented by a further study on narrative in pointing to the great importance of the collective subjects upon which democracy rested. The book indicates the way forward to a new history of democracy as an imagined entity. It represents a deepening of Patrick Joyce's engagement with 'post-modernist' theory, seeking the relevance of this theory for the writing of history, and in the process offering a critique of the conservatism of much academic history, particularly in Britain.

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4 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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