Democratic subjects : the self and the social in Nineteenth-century England /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1994.
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Sommario:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Sorrows of Edwin Waugh: A Study in Working Class Identity: 1. Young Edwin ; 2. The struggle for the moral life ; 3. The ends of the moral life ; 4. The cult of the heart 5. 'God bless these poor folks' ; 6. The legacy of Edwin Waugh
- Part II. John Bright and the English People: A Study in Middle Class Identity: 7. Plain man's prophesy ; 8. Speaking Bright ; 9. Making the self ; 10. Bright make the social ; 11. Creating the democratic imaginary
- Part III. Democratic Romances: Narrative as Collective Identity in Nineteenth-Century England: 12. Narrative and history ; 13. The romance of improvement ; 14. The aesthetic framing of the social ; 15. The constitution as an English Eden ; 16. The story of the cruel Turk ; 17. Some democratic leading men, or Mr Gladstone's dream
- Appendices.