The Making of English Popular Culture
The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.
While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. Particularly significant are the technological changes that made the production of new forms of culture possible, and the concentration of people in urban areas that created significant audiences for this new culture.
Consisting of fourteen original chapters that cover diverse topics ranging from seaside holidays and the invention of Christmas tradition, to advertising, music and popular fiction, the collection aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between culture and power, as explored through areas such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender. It also aims to encourage within cultural studies a renewed historical sense when engaging critically with popular culture by exploring the historical conditions surrounding the existence of popular texts and practices.
Written in a highly accessible style The Making of English Popular Culture is an ideal text for undergraduates studying cultural and media studies, literary studies, cultural history and visual culture.
John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK. He has published extensively in the field of cultural studies, including ten books, the most recent being the seventh edition of Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction (2015). His work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian. He is also on editorial/advisory boards in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and the USA, and has been a Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, the University of Henan, the University of Vienna and the University of Wuhan.
Directions in Cultural History
Series Editors: Gillian Swanson and Ben Highmore
The Directions in Cultural History series directs history towards the study of feelings, experiences and everyday habits. By attending to the world of sensation, imagination, and desire at moments of change, and by coupling this to the materials and technologies of culture, it promotes cultural history as a lively and vivid arena for research. The series will present innovative cultural history in an accessible form to both scholars and upper level students.
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The Making of English Popular Culture
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Storey, John, 1950 editor.
Title: The making of English popular culture / edited and introduced by
John Storey.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2016.
| Series: Directions in cultural history | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041192 | ISBN 9781138854901 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781138854918 (paperback) | ISBN 9781315720678 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular culture-England-History-19th century.
| England-Social life and customs-19th century. | England-Social
conditions-19th century. | England-Intellectual life-19th century. | Social
change-England-History-19th century. | Technological innovations-Social
aspects-England-History-19th century. | Urbanization-Social aspects
England-History-19th century. | Power (Social sciences)-England
History-19th century.
Classification: LCC DA110 .M153 2016 | DDC 306.0942/09034-dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041192
ISBN: 978-1-138-85490-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-85491-8 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-72067-8 (ebk)
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Allison Cavanagh is a Lecturer in Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. She teaches and researches in the history of promotional communication and in nineteenth and early twentieth century media. Her most recent article on mediatisation in the nineteenth century, Barbarous cruelty at the British Museum, explored class identities and the social and cultural uses of Victorian newspapers.
Ralph Crane is Professor and Head of English at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He has published widely on colonial and postcolonial fictions, and has written or edited twenty books. His recent work includes several publications in the area of island studies and the geohumanities. With Lisa Fletcher he is the co-author of Cave: Nature and Culture, as well as several articles and book chapters on imperial adventure fiction, illustration and popular fiction in the Victorian Age, and the geohumanities.
Sarah Edge is a Professor of Photography and Cultural Studies at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Her articles on early photography include: The Great Famine: absence, memory and photography in Cultural Studies 24: 6, with Gail Baylis, Photographic History and the Visual Appearance of An Irish Nationalist Discourse 18401870, in
