AN EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS by Carolyn Steedman ( 9781107670297 )

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AN EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS
WORK, SELF AND SOCIABILITY IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY

By:

Carolyn Steedman

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1107670292

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 December, 2013

Pages:

312

Description:

Unique and fascinating account of English working-class life at the turn of the nineteenth century by celebrated historian Carolyn Steedman.

Synopsis:

This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and Clifton's magistrate records, Carolyn Steedman gives us a unique and fascinating account of working-class living and loving, and getting and spending. Through Woolley and his thoughts on reading and drinking, sex, the law and social relations, she challenges traditional accounts which she argues have overstated the importance of work to the working man's understanding of himself, as a creature of time, place and society. She shows instead that, for men like Woolley, law and fiction were just as critical as work in framing everyday life.

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8 b/w illus. 2 tables

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: LANGUAGE, GENDER AND CHILDHOOD (1985)