
Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture
by Nicola Bishop
Title:
Lower-Middle-Class Nation: The White-Collar Worker in British Popular Culture
Author:
Nicola Bishop
Format:
Hardback
Number of pages:
256 pages, 8 bw illus
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13:
9781350064355
EAN:
9781350064355
Classifications:
Literature: history and criticism
Weight (g):
668
Dimensions (mm):
164 x 241 x 23
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
Lower-Middle-Class Nationprovides 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 Nationrepresents a new direction in cultural histories of work, labour, and leisure.










