Imagining the Middle Class

The Political Representation of Class in Britain, C.1780 1840

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Paperback | 11 September 1995

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Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in underlying transformations of social structure - in this case industrialisation, which supposedly created and empowered the middle class - but rather in changing political configurations. Firmly grounded in a close reading of an extensive array of sources, and supported by comparative perspectives on France and America, the book offers a nuanced model for the interplay between social reality, politics, and the languages of class.

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'For all those interested in the question whether class is best seen as a category of social and economic history or as an artefact of political discourse, Imagining the Middle Class is essential - and fascinating - reading.' Gareth Stedman Jones, King's College, Cambridge

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Imagining the æmiddle classÆ: an introduction
Against the Tide: Prelude to the 1790s: was the French Revolution a æbourgeois revolutionÆ?
The uses of æmiddle classÆ language in the 1790s
Friends and foes of the æmiddle classÆ: the dialogic imagination
The political differentiation of social language: the debate on the triple assessment Postlude to the 1790s: the uses of æbourgeois revolutionÆ
The Tug of War
Taming the æmiddle classÆ
The tug of war and its resolution
With the Tide
The social construction of the middle class
The parallels across the Channel: a French aside
The debates on the Reform Bill: bowing to a new representation of the æmiddle classÆ
Inventing the ever-rising æmiddle classÆ: the aftermath of 1832
1832 and the æmiddle classÆ conquest of the æprivate sphereÆ Epilogue
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