Albert D. Pionke

The Ritual Culture of Victorian Professionals (eBook, ePUB)

Competing for Ceremonial Status, 1838-1877

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Pionke's book historicizes the relationship of ritual, class and public status in Victorian England. Through analysis of magazines, court cases, law books, manuals and works by authors that include William Makepeace Thackeray, Thomas Hughes, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Pionke's book excavates Victorian professionals' vital ritual culture and writers' place in the zero-sum contest for professional status.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317017370
• Artikelnr.: 44815804

Autorenporträt

Albert D. Pionke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, USA and is author of Plots of Opportunity (2004) and editor of Victorian Secrecy (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Citations
Introduction
1 Education as a Rite of Privilege: Oxbridge Preprofessionalism
2 Swearing Your Way to Sacred Status: Oath Taking in Professional Creation Ceremonies
3 Litigious Prestige: Rituals of Law as Fact and Fiction
4 Rituals of Election: Contesting Parliamentary Authority
5 A Ritual Failure: The Eglinton Tournament in Context
Epilogue: Learning Professionalism for Today
Bibliography
Index