The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class
Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945
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2023
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5701-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5701-0 (ISBN)
Charting the decline and recent resurgence of the landed gentry in British public life, The fall and rise of the English upper class explores how traditionalist worldviews, centred on kinship, inheritance, and the image of the house, have come to shape our politics and culture. -- .
The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain’s post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain’s Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England. -- .
The fall and rise of the English upper class explores the role traditionalist worldviews, articulated by members of the historic upper-class, have played in British society in the shadow of her imperial and economic decline in the twentieth century. Situating these traditionalist visions alongside Britain’s post-Brexit fantasies of global economic resurgence and a socio-cultural return to a green and pleasant land, Smith examines Britain’s Establishment institutions, the estates of her landed gentry and aristocracy, through to an appetite for nostalgic products represented with pastoral or pre-modern symbolism. It is demonstrated that these institutions and pursuits play a central role in situating social, cultural and political belonging. Crucially these institutions and pursuits rely upon a form of membership which is grounded in a kinship idiom centred upon inheritance and descent: who inherits the houses of privilege, inherits England. -- .
Daniel R. Smith is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University -- .
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: England’s hope and loss
Part I: Fall and rise
1. Houses, kinship and capital
2. England as a house society
Part II: The social poetics of houses
3. Imperial melancholia: Rory Stewart’s The Marches (2017)
4. Arcadianism: Adam Nicolson’s Sissinghurst (2008)
5. ‘Island Englishness’: Roger Scruton’s England: An Elegy (2000)
Part III: Houses as kinship & capital
6. The Reading Public
7. The Branded Gentry
8. The fortunes of the land
Conclusion: contingent remainders
References
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.03.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 494 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-5701-2 / 1526157012 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-5701-0 / 9781526157010 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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