The Culture of capital : art, power, and the nineteenth-century middle class
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The Culture of capital : art, power, and the nineteenth-century middle class
Manchester University Press, c1988
- : pbk.
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Includes index
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Description
This volume contains a collection of essays on the relationship between money, politics and status among the Victorian bourgeoisie through art, patronage, collections and exhibitions, particularly in northern England.
Table of Contents
- The failure of the Victorian middle class - a critique, Simon Gunn
- commerce and the liberal arts - the political economy of art in Manchester, 1775-1860, John Seed
- class, culture and control - the Sheffield Athanaeum movement and the middle class, Alan White
- the culture of separate spheres - the role of culture in 19th-century public and private life, Janet Wolff
- without distinction of party - the Polytechnic Exhibitions in Leeds, 1839-45, Caroline Arscott
- employer, husband, spectator - Thomas Fairbarn's commission of "The Awakening Conscience", Caroline Arscott
- the partial view - the visual representation of the early 19th-century industrial city, Caroline Arscott and Griselda Pollock.
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