Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City
$47.99 (C)
- Author: Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba, Canada
- Date Published: October 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521543484
$
47.99
(C)
Paperback
Other available formats:
Hardback
Looking for an examination copy?
This title is not currently available for examination. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an examination copy. To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching.
-
Lively and innovative, these well-illustrated essays on the making of the Victorian entertainment industry get inside the popular experience of the pub, music-hall, theater and comic press. In this new leisure world, audiences learned how to be performers themselves, adopting roles and styles appropriate to the unsettling dynamics of the modern city. A major advance in understanding how popular culture actually works, this is a model of the successful integration of the theory and practice of social history and cultural studies.
Read more- Peter Bailey a well-known social historian
- Offers views of many popular Victorian entertainments: music, theatre, the pub, the comic newspaper, etc
- Contains illustrations from the period including comics from contemporary newspapers
Reviews & endorsements
"...it is often a pleasure to observe the dexterity with which Bailey handles his material." Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews"...a captivating and eloquent contribution to the history of popular culture in Britain." Essays in Theatre
"For educated general readers as well as college and graduate collections at all levels." Choice
"In Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City Peter Bailey gives a bravura performance. The book is filled with challenging interpretations... Great fun to read as well as highly stimulating, the essays are characterised by impeccable research, elegant, lively prose, breathtaking vocabulary, and apt period illustrations. Further, the book illuminates wonderfully the evolution and maturation of the scholarly mind of one of the most imagnative Victorian social historians of the late-twentieth century." Kathleen E.McCrone, Canadian Journal of History
"[Bailey's] latest book is a collection of previously published essays exploring the expanding world of popular entertainment in the late Victorian city. Read together, they offer a fascinating overview of Bailey's achievement in shaping a field with its own set of evolving critical questions." Victorian Periodicals Review
"Bailey has cajoled conventional history into...relaxingits relentless emphasis on labor and attending to leisure. His latest book os a collection of previously published essays exploring the expanding world of popular entertainment in the late Victorian city. Read together, they offer a fascinating overview of Bailey's achievement in shaping a field with its own set of evolving critical questions." Victorian Periodicals Review 33:2 Summer 2000
Customer reviews
Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review
Review was not posted due to profanity
×Product details
- Date Published: October 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521543484
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.423kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: social history, cultural studies and the cad
1. The Victorian middle class and the problem of leisure
2. A role analysis of working-class respectability
3. Ally Soper's half-holiday: comic art in the 1880s
4. Business and good fellowship in the London music hall
5. Champagne Charlie and the music hall swell song:
6. Music-hall and the knowingness of popular culture
7. The Victorian barmaid as cultural prototype
8. Musical comedy and the rhetoric of the girl, 1892–1914
9. Breaking the sound barrier
Notes
Index.
Related Books
Sorry, this resource is locked
Please register or sign in to request access. If you are having problems accessing these resources please email lecturers@cambridge.org
Register Sign in» Proceed
You are now leaving the Cambridge University Press website. Your eBook purchase and download will be completed by our partner www.ebooks.com. Please see the permission section of the www.ebooks.com catalogue page for details of the print & copy limits on our eBooks.
Continue ×Are you sure you want to delete your account?
This cannot be undone.
Thank you for your feedback which will help us improve our service.
If you requested a response, we will make sure to get back to you shortly.
×