Lower-Middle-Class Nation

The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture

Dr Nicola Bishop (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-06435-5 (ISBN)

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Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms across literature, film, television and more, Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day, tackling a number of pressing, consistent concerns such as automation, commuting, and the search for a life/work balance. Above all, this book brings together ideas about class, nationhood, and gender, demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday.

Aimed at undergraduate, postgraduates and scholars working in media and social history, literature, popular culture, cultural studies and sociology, Lower-Middle-Class Nation represents a new direction in cultural histories of work, labour, and leisure.

Nicola Bishop is Senior Lecturer in English, Film and Television at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Her main research interest is the interdisciplinary representation of the lower-middle-class clerk in British popular culture.

1. Introduction
2. The Clerk
3. The Office
4. The Commute
5. The Suburbs
6. The Bank Holiday
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	8 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-350-06435-1 / 1350064351
ISBN-13	978-1-350-06435-5 / 9781350064355
Zustand	Neuware