Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England
By: Edited by Robert D. Storch
Contributors: Storch, Robert D.
Publisher: Croom Helm Ltd
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover with book jacket
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: England -- Social conditions.; England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Description: Book jacket blurb: This book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in the customs, rituals, values and beliefs of artisans, factory workers and sections of the lower middle class in the nineteenth century. Material is drawn from all parts of the British Isles, including Cornwall, where traditional beliefs showed intriguing similarities with Methodism. Arguments adduced to account for changes in custom include the effects of urbanisation, conflict over the use of public land, new conceptions of public order, the decline of
the oral tradition and the growth of a new recreational nexus in the larger cities. The book demonstrates the enormous variety and diversity of popular tradition, which defies any facile categorisation.
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: List of Abbreviations; title: Introduction: Persistence and Change in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture, Robert D. Storch; title: The Decline of the Oral Tradition in Popular Culture, David Vincent; title: Methodism, Popular Beliefs and Village Culture in Cornwall, 1800-50, John Rule; title: 'Please to Remember the Fifth of November': Conflict, Solidarity and Public Order in Southern England, 1815-1900, Robert D. Storch; title: The Lancashire Wakes in the Nineteenth Century, John K. Walton and Robert Poole; title: Interpreting the Festival Calendar: Wakes and Fairs as Carnivals, Douglas A. Reid; title: Secrecy, Ritual and Folk Violence: The Opacity of the Workplace in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Clive Behagg; title: Custom, Capital and Culture in the Victorian Music Hall, Peter Bailey; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Index